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post #1 of 21
9/8/10 at 2:10pm
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http://www.google.com/instant/#utm_c...source=instant


This is fucking cool.
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post #2 of 21
9/8/10 at 2:13pm
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* Before Google Instant, the typical searcher took more than 9 seconds to enter a search term, and we saw many examples of searches that took 30-90 seconds to type.
* Using Google Instant can save 2-5 seconds per search.
* If everyone uses Google Instant globally, we estimate this will save more than 3.5 billion seconds a day. That's 11 hours saved every second.
* 15 new technologies contribute to Google Instant functionality.

I had no idea.
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post #3 of 21
9/8/10 at 3:35pm
- There is a lag in typing in it right now, which slows things down for me
- The flashing and screen changing at the bottom is a distraction and slows down my typing at the beginning, when it is certain that I need additional characters to get me to my answer

I wonder if the "before/after" times are theoretical or if they have actual tested it?
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post #4 of 21
9/8/10 at 3:37pm
Pretty cool, but overall not a massive productivity improver. More like a "pretty cool trick" that's better to have than not to have.
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post #5 of 21
9/8/10 at 7:26pm
SEO people are creaming themselves at this Instant.
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post #6 of 21
9/8/10 at 7:28pm
So if we all use it we can go back in time?
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post #7 of 21
9/8/10 at 7:35pm
awesome, i can haz pron search results 2-5 seconds quicker....
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post #8 of 21
9/8/10 at 8:07pm
It's not working for me
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post #9 of 21
9/8/10 at 8:09pm
^^ It's only available in select countries for the moment. US, UK, France, and a couple others iirc. Internet-savvy people aren't going to get much out of this but I can see the everyman benefitting, especially if he's of a certain age.
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post #10 of 21
9/8/10 at 8:10pm
hasn't worked on my computer all day.
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post #11 of 21
9/8/10 at 8:13pm
have to be logged into your google account i think. this is google's death nail. search results will be even more unreliable. search for "dr." (doctor) and the entire page comes up as Dr. Oz, including news.
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post #12 of 21
9/8/10 at 8:21pm
I think you mean death knell. And I'd love to know compared to whose search Google is unreliable. Yahoo? Bing? lol
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post #13 of 21
9/8/10 at 8:23pm
we'll see what happens. We'll have SEO people targetting partial words now!
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post #14 of 21
9/8/10 at 8:26pm
Hm yes, I think you should bet a large sum of money against google's future success on the stock market.
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post #15 of 21
9/8/10 at 8:30pm
its a search engine/social media/web 2.0 bubble. there will be a lot of money made in short term, then all gone! next facebook will get into the search game...then their IPO...then everyone will be rich....then everyone's poor again.
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