See UPDATE at 2:57pm

Google Autocomplete (formerly Suggest) is an effective algorithm to mine what people are Googling in almost real time. We’ll find out how real time it is as the storm progresses, but we are already seeing the locations that the storm is projected to hit in the result set – as south as Maryland, all the way up to Canada as show in the map below from the National Hurricane Center.

(NHC, 1:12pm EST, 11/28/2012)

Current Result Set from Google Autocomplete on Hurricane Sandy 10/28/2012, 1:25pm EST, NYC.

Result set from http://suggester.promediacorp.com/?lo=us&la=en&c=kprwpw&q=hurricane+sandy [“hook” & “point” filtered out)

Top 5 terms:

hurricane sandy hurricane sandy update hurricane sandy projected path hurricane sandy 2012 hurricane sandy 2006

Current all :[locations have been bolded]

1 hurricane sandy evacuations 2 hurricane sandy ontario 3 hurricane sandy jamaica 4 hurricane sandy long island 5 hurricane sandy radar 6 hurricane sandy boston 7 hurricane sandy nyc 8 hurricane sandy dc 9 hurricane sandy tracker 10 hurricane sandy video 11 hurricane sandy washington dc 12 hurricane sandy map 13 hurricane sandy satellite 14 hurricane sandy connecticut 15 hurricane sandy watch 16 hurricane sandy maryland 17 hurricane sandy school closings 18 hurricane sandy twitter 19 hurricane sandy philadelphia 20 hurricane sandy new york 21 hurricane sandy baltimore 22 hurricane sandy category 23 hurricane sandy delaware 24 hurricane sandy live 25 hurricane sandy cuba 26 hurricane sandy toronto 27 hurricane sandy brooklyn 28 hurricane sandy landfall 29 hurricane sandy new jersey 30 hurricane sandy latest news 31 hurricane sandy canada 32 hurricane sandy new york city

As you can see from the list above, Google autocomplete is like a realtime trending topics. In the case of Hurricane Sandy, autocomplete is accumulating and ordering the locations from all news sources that people consume and later query.

[UPDATED: 2:57PM EST]

The number of terms in autocomplete related to Sandy has quadrupled in under 24 hours. We have new terms that people are querying such as:

Ways to track the storm- Twitter , Tunblr , Youtube , and the new hurricane tracker Google launched

, , , and the new Google launched Images, videos , l ive coverage, timeline and radar.

, l and radar. Damage , death toll , evacuation , projected path after aftermath.

, , , after aftermath. Conspiracies , Jokes , End of the World , new memes such as Grease and other offbeat.

, , , new memes such as Grease and other offbeat. New local terms including Jersey Shore, Ocean City MD, Richmond VA, Outer Banks, Syracuse, Buffalo, Chicago, Michigan, Southern Ontario

Complete List:

1 hurricane sandy path 2 hurricane sandy update 3 hurricane sandy tracker 4 hurricane sandy 5 hurricane sandy 2012 6 hurricane sandy 2006 7 hurricane sandy nyc 8 hurricane sandy evacuation 9 hurricane sandy virginia 10 hurricane sandy grease 11 hurricane sandy from space 12 hurricane sandy wiki 13 hurricane sandy landfall 14 hurricane sandy jokes 15 hurricane sandy atlantic city 16 hurricane sandy images 17 hurricane sandy map 18 hurricane sandy dc 19 hurricane sandy halifax 20 hurricane sandy ohio 21 hurricane sandy youtube 22 hurricane sandy zones 23 hurricane sandy category 24 hurricane sandy boston 25 hurricane sandy satellite 26 hurricane sandy radar 27 hurricane sandy meme 28 hurricane sandy connecticut 29 hurricane sandy twitter 30 hurricane sandy albany ny 31 hurricane sandy jersey city 32 hurricane sandy baltimore 33 hurricane sandy live 34 hurricane sandy washington dc 35 hurricane sandy damage 36 hurricane sandy in boston 37 hurricane sandy google 38 hurricane sandy video 39 hurricane sandy evacuation zones 40 hurricane sandy rhode island 41 hurricane sandy outer banks 42 hurricane sandy funny 43 hurricane sandy projected path 44 hurricane sandy new york 45 hurricane sandy status 46 hurricane sandy pictures 57 hurricane sandy jersey shore 48 hurricane sandy ocean city md 49 hurricane sandy long island 50 hurricane sandy vermont 51 hurricane sandy storm tracker 52 hurricane sandy new jersey 53 hurricane sandy timeline 54 hurricane sandy richmond va 55 hurricane sandy maryland 56 hurricane sandy watch 57 hurricane sandy end of the world 58 hurricane sandy florida 59 hurricane sandy in new york 60 hurricane sandy current location 61 hurricane sandy global warming 62 hurricane sandy brooklyn 63 hurricane sandy deaths 64 hurricane sandy footage 65 hurricane sandy virginia beach 66 hurricane sandy ontario 67 hurricane sandy jamaica 68 hurricane sandy tumblr 69 hurricane sandy maine 70 hurricane sandy rochester ny 71 hurricane sandy in new jersey 72 hurricane sandy syracuse 73 hurricane sandy location 74 hurricane sandy impact 75 hurricane sandy ottawa 76 hurricane sandy philadelphia 77 hurricane sandy size 78 hurricane sandy live radar 79 hurricane sandy weather 80 hurricane sandy toronto 81 hurricane sandy flight cancellations 82 hurricane sandy massachusetts 83 hurricane sandy coverage 84 hurricane sandy route 85 hurricane sandy cape cod 86 hurricane sandy right now 87 hurricane sandy in north carolina 88 hurricane sandy manhattan 89 hurricane sandy photos 90 hurricane sandy weather channel 91 hurricane sandy storm surge 92 hurricane sandy latest news 93 hurricane sandy real time 94 hurricane sandy surf 95 hurricane sandy michigan 96 hurricane sandy live update 97 hurricane sandy in canada 98 hurricane sandy doppler 99 hurricane sandy waves 100 hurricane sandy pittsburgh 101 hurricane sandy chicago 102 hurricane sandy wind speed 103 hurricane sandy live video 104 hurricane sandy new york city 105 hurricane sandy montreal 106 hurricane sandy delaware 107 hurricane sandy in ontario 108 hurricane sandy pics 109 hurricane sandy strength 110 hurricane sandy conspiracy 111 hurricane sandy death toll 112 hurricane sandy west virginia 113 hurricane sandy current position 114 hurricane sandy live tracker 115 hurricane sandy north carolina 116 hurricane sandy path update 117 hurricane sandy satellite image 118 hurricane sandy power outages 119 hurricane sandy buffalo 120 hurricane sandy nasa 121 hurricane sandy live coverage 122 hurricane sandy canada 123 hurricane sandy southern ontario