Google Instant Search Released • Hacker News Board

Re: Google Instant Search Released

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Post by sumeetjain » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 6:23 PM UTC

pfarrell wrote: post #14

sp332 wrote: post #7

what does "?sclient=psy" mean?

I'm going to guess it means "psychic mode" which they just made a joke about in the presentation. "It's not psychic, but it's clever".

The internal codename for this project at Google was "Psychic Search".

Re: Google Instant Search Released

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Post by ashishbharthi » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 6:24 PM UTC

nailer wrote: post #67

Could you please link to the actual announcement, not the front page of Google? 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.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672461

Re: Google Instant Search Released

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Post by exit » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 6:24 PM UTC

am i overlooking something, or is there no way to use the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button now?

Re: Google Instant Search Released

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Post by frou_dh » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 6:28 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #70

Just 'w' will give weather, but with an extra 'w' ww will give 'facebook.com' as the first result, that's interesting.

When I used Chrome, typing w in the location bar gave www.facebook.com as the first choice (no local cache).

I'm sure it deserves to be there but that's a bit icky if you have no interest in it ;-)

Re: Google Instant Search Released

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Post by kordless » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 6:29 PM UTC

This is a total ripoff of keyboardr.com.

Re: Google Instant Search Released

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Post by Skroob » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 6:30 PM UTC

exit wrote: post #73

am i overlooking something, or is there no way to use the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button now?

If you hover over a result in the suggestion list, there's an I'm Feeling Lucky option on the right.

Did people ever really use that for anything besides google bomb jokes though?

Re: Google Instant Search Released

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Post by orblivion » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 6:30 PM UTC

Do we really need this? Isn't the time it takes to finish a query the last problem on our hands? Or am I just a spoiled fast typer?

Re: Google Instant Search Released

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Post by chintan » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 6:33 PM UTC

Auto-complete/Tab complete is priceless! Feels like I'm using Vim on google.com. Thank You!

Re: Google Instant Search Released

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Post by barmstrong » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 6:33 PM UTC

orblivion wrote: post #77

Do we really need this? Isn't the time it takes to finish a query the last problem on our hands? Or am I just a spoiled fast typer?

Wasn't Outlook good enough? Did we really need faster search in Gmail?

This is gonna be one of those things you didn't know you needed till you got used to it, then you'll look back and wonder how you ever lived without it.

Re: Google Instant Search Released

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Post by felideon » Wed, Sep 08, 2010, 6:34 PM UTC

exit wrote: post #73

am i overlooking something, or is there no way to use the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button now?

It shows up when you hover over the suggestions.