MC+A » Google.com http://www.mcplusa.com Connecting Business Intellingence Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:54:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Google Rolls Out Google Instant http://www.mcplusa.com/blog/2010/09/google-rolls-out-google-instant/ http://www.mcplusa.com/blog/2010/09/google-rolls-out-google-instant/#comments Wed, 08 Sep 2010 19:21:11 +0000 Michael http://www.mcplusa.com/blog/2010/09/google-rolls-out-google-instant/ Google.com has begun rolling out Google Instant.  This new feature not only performs a Autocomplete/Search as your type but actually performs a search based on what you have begun typing.  In preliminary testing, users can save 2-5 second per search.

The feature is described in detail at http://www.google.com/instant/  It’s a significant overhaul from the current search infrastructure requiring additional capacity from Google infrastructure to support the additional queries.

Key features:

  • Dynamic Results – In addition to autocomplete/search as you type searches are performed and returned while you type.
  • Predictions – the autocomplete attempts to predict and display your full query.
  • Scroll to Search – You can scroll through predictions instantly with an arrow down.

Zeta byte

In case you didn’t know what a zeta byte is: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_many_gigabytes_are_in_a_zeta_byte

Availability

Google instant is available on Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE 8 (we are not sure about Opera) in France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain and the UK. 

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Screen shot of Google.com New Interface

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What is interesting is if you scroll down a little you’ll see some biasing options.   Here there is an option for “more shopping sites” and “less shopping sites’”

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