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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?
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 switched from AltaVista to Google back in 1998, not because their search engine returned results more quickly, but because their results were much more relevant.
In the past few years, SEOs have set up micro-sites on just about any topic I could possibly search for and they've managed to rank highly for those topics. Am I the only one who's sick of being taken to these shallow landing pages smothered in ads? Does anyone else think Google's search results are now far less relevant than they were 5 years ago?
I don't need search results that update live as I type. I need to find what I'm looking for.
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.
Speaking from a UI standpoint, I find the leap of the bar from the middle to the top of the screen to be very disorienting. I know that the middle-of-the-page input field is a real visual trademark for Google, but if they want to push this feature, they might have to move the box up to where it is currently leaping.
Just 'w' will give weather, but with an extra 'w' ww will give 'facebook.com' as the first result, that's interesting.
Of course "your" implies the masses. They use Google like we would use the address bar.
As someone touched on above with longtails, the real interesting bit will be to see what the Google keyword tool says about search terms next month(or maybe the month after that). We'll have to see if longtails have fallen off the face of the Earth or not. Maybe the autosuggest will still have a major impact vs. what they see in the SERPs below as they are typing.
Edit: I got Walmart as the first result for 'w'. Could be a location-based decision engine potentially. Fuckin rednecks
Speaking from a UI standpoint, I find the leap of the bar from the middle to the top of the screen to be very disorienting. I know that the middle-of-the-page input field is a real visual trademark for Google, but if they want to push this feature, they might have to move the box up to where it is currently leaping.
Not sure if this was covered elsewhere, but this actually changes the SEO game in a subtle way. imagine you could rank for the term online deg but NOT online degree. SEO's rejoice, this could be profitable for consultants and linkbuilders.
I'm curious if users will actually change their behavior because of this though. For example, if you decide you want to go to google.com to search for "online degree", are you likely going to stop in the middle of typing your phrase when you notice some results appear? For me the lag between typing and displaying of results seems a little too slow for this to really happen.