Google just rolled out with auto-fill in the Safari browser, following in the footsteps of Yahoo. When you enter a search term into Google, it makes suggestions to complete your search for you. This could be detrimental to domain owners, as people frequently type in the actual destination domain name into their search engine query, but with Google’s suggestions (which don’t include domain names), it may be less likely that people will continue their search entry.

As I posted in February, Google was testing this on other country sites, such as Google Korea.

Howard Neu emailed me a list of the 2008 TRAFFIC Award nominees. The winners will be announced at next month’s TRAFFIC show in New York City. To vote, drop Howard an email (trafficawards @ earthlink.net). These are some of the leading individuals and companies, and a hearty congratulations to them all, many of which are close friends.

SPONSOR OF THE YEAR
SKENZO
CASALE MEDIA
TRAFFIC Z
PARKED
SEDO
HITFARM

DOMAINER OF THE YEAR
DEREK GIORDANO
RICK LATONA
DR. CHRIS HARTNETT
RICK SCHWARTZ (Declined)
MIKE BERKENS
ROB GRANT
LONNIE BORCK

BEST OVERALL DOMAIN SOLUTION
FABULOUS
DNZOOM
MONIKER
NAME MEDIA
PARKED
SKENZO

DOMAIN HALL OF FAME (Vote for 2)
MICHAEL BERKENS
DR. CHRIS HARTNETT
ROB GRANT
LARRY FISCHER
SCOTT DAY
YUN YE
PAGE HOWE

BEST NEW MONETIZING SOLUTION
PARKED
SENDORI
ADBRITE.COM
EVOLANDING.COM
HITFARM

THE “WE GET IT” AWARD
JOHNSON & JOHNSON
APPLE for ME.COM
FORECLOSURE.COM
CNN

BEST DEVELOPER OF THE YEAR
JESSICA BOOKSTAFF
WHY PARK
RECALL MEDIA
KEVIN HAM
RICK LATONA