Glad it's gone. Probably it's more about energy saving and DC optimization.
Google Has Dropped Google Instant Search
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Re: Google Has Dropped Google Instant Search
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In Firefox I can hit / or ' to type the link I want and hit enter. When sites mess around with keyboard shortcuts it makes my browsing experience inconsistent and disorienting.
That's a very slow and technical way but you can still do that if you want.
I wouldn't describe it as slow. Rarely need type more than a few characters and I don't need to count.
Re: Google Has Dropped Google Instant Search
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> It was always a pain to set up my search engine to have instant off - and of course instant turns back on if you performed a second search on the results page of the no-instant page. Hmm, is it not just a matter of turning it off? Or are you doing something more advanced than using the standard Google search page?
I guess if you log in, yeah. I keep my browsing highly compartmentalized, so I don't log in to Google for the purpose of searches. I used URL parameters to turn it off, but they don't persist.
I don't log in either.
Re: Google Has Dropped Google Instant Search
#164God, instant search was such a pain. So much in fact that instead of typing anything into Google when it was on, I used to type it out in Notepad or another editor and paste that into the box instead. Just found it incredibly distracting otherwise.
Nice to know they've gotten rid of it.
Re: Google Has Dropped Google Instant Search
#165This feature was never useful. Not to mention wasted bandwidth. Glad it's dead. Just give me simplicity.
Re: Google Has Dropped Google Instant Search
#166Looks like I'm in the minority here, but I really liked instant. I remember turning in instant from the omnibox in chrome, too. It showed that Google was at least willing to innovate in the search space -- and for some of us, it was a huge positive to have.
I'm surprised there's not an extension out yet to return the functionality.