Google gave journalists a demonstration of its new iPhone apps at Google HQ in London today (think Segways, free food, Pilates rooms and lots of people looking extremely pleased with themselves).

One of the features it was gagging to show off was that the search engine now guesses what you’re going to enter as soon as you start typing in the box.

So, for example, our demo man revealed, I simply enter the letter W and, lo-and-behold, what does Google think you’re most likely to be searching for? www.yahoo.com apparently.

Cue slightly embarrassed silence and (no doubt) a volley of internal emails urging the developers to rethink their strategy on the letter W.