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Well, it's impressively fast, however, I'm not sure I will ever get to use it considering I do most of my search from the Google Chrome Omnibox and very rarely visit the actual google homepage...
Exactly what I thought. It's a great feature, but just going to google.com takes up time. Maybe future integration into Chrome?
Why would I want Google to begin searching at 'he' if I'm looking for 'hello world'? Will the instant search list relevant results so early on, so as to save me from typing the whole term?
Why would I want Google to begin searching at 'he' if I'm looking for 'hello world'? Will the instant search list relevant results so early on, so as to save me from typing the whole term?
From their FAQ page http://www.google.com/instant/ * 15 new technologies contribute to Google Instant functionality. Does anyone know which are these new technologies?
(I apologize profusely, I just couldn't resist.)
Why would I want Google to begin searching at 'he' if I'm looking for 'hello world'? Will the instant search list relevant results so early on, so as to save me from typing the whole term?
It doesn't search for 'he', it searches for the first autocomplete from 'he' - which happens to be Hertz, oh well.
I for one turn off google suggestions on every new pc/browser I use, it is a distraction to me and actually causes me to type slower. Maybe because I've been in front of a computer constantly for 15 years but I can type my term much faster than being distracted by results and clicking on the dropdown for them. I just wish I could disable this account wide so every time I clean my cookies/cache in Firefox I don't have…
Also, it has tab-complete.
Google release their products incrementally, so not everyone has access to new features at the same time.
There's others in the thread who also don't have this in their locale yet and are also reduced to guessing.
One of the main issues for advertisers (as far as I can tell) is that this increases competition for the keywords which Google predicts first, and decreases traffic for the other keywords. This already happened with Google Suggest, but I think that Instant search will result in even more users only interacting with the first suggestion. For example, the term "social networking" will now get far more traffic than "soc…
I tried searching for wtf. It lengthens the term to wtfismygearscore, which appears to be some WoW tool. What I don't like about the tool is that it makes my searches too specific! It doesn't know when to quit and the completion is often longer than I want it to be.
Strange.