Goggle has today announced new 'Instant' search results that change what you are shown as you type. Google claims the new feature will reduce the time spent on search by two to five seconds per request, saving its more than 1 billion weekly users about 350 million hours a year. The change, called 'Google Instant,' is available to all users on google.com in English in the US, and also to signed-in users in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Russia and the UK. It is the closest the 12-year-old company has come yet to realising its founders' ambition to build a search engine that reads its users' minds. Announcing Google Instant, Google co-founder Sergey Brin joked that the company's lightning-quick computers are morphing into the 'other third' of people's brains. 'I think it's a little bit of a new dawn in computing,' he said. The shift means Google users will begin to see an ever-evolving set of search results appearing on their computer screens, potentially changing with each additional character typed. That means a satisfactory set of results could take just one keystroke. As an example, a person who types 'w' in Google's search box could see the weather results in the same area as where the request was entered. (Daily Mail)
Thursday 9 September 2010
Now it's predictive search: Google unveils new 'Instant' result service (... we should have seen that coming)
Goggle has today announced new 'Instant' search results that change what you are shown as you type. Google claims the new feature will reduce the time spent on search by two to five seconds per request, saving its more than 1 billion weekly users about 350 million hours a year. The change, called 'Google Instant,' is available to all users on google.com in English in the US, and also to signed-in users in Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Russia and the UK. It is the closest the 12-year-old company has come yet to realising its founders' ambition to build a search engine that reads its users' minds. Announcing Google Instant, Google co-founder Sergey Brin joked that the company's lightning-quick computers are morphing into the 'other third' of people's brains. 'I think it's a little bit of a new dawn in computing,' he said. The shift means Google users will begin to see an ever-evolving set of search results appearing on their computer screens, potentially changing with each additional character typed. That means a satisfactory set of results could take just one keystroke. As an example, a person who types 'w' in Google's search box could see the weather results in the same area as where the request was entered. (Daily Mail)
