Whats influencing Googles Predictive text feature?

[Nightwing]

Good morning from 7 degrees C mostly cloudy wetherby UK

Here is todays musing...

When you enter a term in Google it predicts what your trying to enter but I wonder what is influencing the order of the phrases.

For example when you enter cms website the terms it autofills are not alpahabetical

eg:

cms website
cms website templates
cms website design

below link illustrates this:
http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc53/zymurgy_bucket/google-auto-fillcopy.jpg

So my question is please: "Is this a volume thing in that Geoogle works out whats in demand via ppc ads and then ranks them acccordingly"?

Any insights welcome

[zeepartner]

It seems that this is mostly triggered by the amount of searches. Read this interesting article for more about that: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/romanians-are-smart-or-how-to-change-the-google-autocomplete-suggestions

Whether data from Adwords is included as well is an interesting question, though I don't see any signs for it. But myy feeling is that Google is in fact evaluating further factors for those suggested queries.

[activitysuper]

Like Phil said, if a term is searched on a lot then Google says, right this is an important term add it in.

I guess Phil if you took the results and entered them into Google keyword tool, if it was just down to search volume they should be in order, the most search at top down to the last with the littlest search.