When designer-fashion aficionados go on the Paris-based Videdressing marketplace website and start entering a search string, they're presented with queries they can simply select to refine their search results for desired items.

Online marketplace Mercari "guesses" shoppers' intended search strings by presenting suggested searches below the search box as they enter information, thereby reducing the input required to locate listings for desirable items.

When designer-fashion aficionados go on the Paris-based Videdressing marketplace website and start entering a search string, they're presented with queries they can simply select to refine their search results for desired items.