The invention provides a personalized recommendation method and device for input association. The method comprises the steps that search query input by a user is received, and the type of the currentsearch query is recognized; and when pinyin information, hit by part or all of pinyin of the current search query, in an input association candidate set is analyzed, historical search words corresponding to the hit pinyin information are used as input association candidate words to perform personalized recommendation of the input association. In this way, the efficiency of the personalized recommendation method for the input association is improved; the user can accurately think of an appropriate search word to express the search intention without the need for manually rewriting a search wordto perform search again, and therefore the accuracy of the personalized recommendation method for the input association can be improved; and further in combination with an existing input association model, search cost can be reduced for the user, the user is helped to quickly and conveniently find a search result, the export effect of a whole search box is improved, and search experience can be further improved.