Google had added a Search suggest feature in their Google Labs some time ago. It will show autocomplete terms as you typed in your search term. But the feature was never added to the standard google interface. Here is a screen shot of Google Suggest feature in Google labs.
But this time Yahoo has added autocomplete feature (as they call it) to their standard Search page. You may turn this off if you find it irritating though.
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