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[Hugehead]

Yesterday Google launched a new search engine app called "instant Google" it instantly displays the results of your "most likely" search, I've tested it and it's not personalized, just throws up the most commonly searched term, while this apparantly cuts down the time to type in a search it annoys me that there is no way to turn it off and with all the results flipping by quickly it's quite hard for me to even see if it's ven helping, slowing down my search times considerably. /rant
So tell me Bay 12, what do you think of the new search function Google has released?

[SHAD0Wdump]

You can turn it off. Upper right corner, search settings, at the bottom is the option to turn it off.

[Hugehead]

Somehow when I looked there I missed it.

[alway]

While you claim it isn't personalized (and it may not be yet), my guess would be since it is google, they will personalize it more in the future. They have an e-mail system which figures out which emails you want to read; such a system for searches can't be far behind.

[Bauglir]

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[Ephemeriis]

The idea is that most people read faster than they type.  So it could predictively complete your search for you, and display meaningful results before you would even have finished typing everything out.

For me, personally, this isn't true.  I type faster than it is able to display results, which means it is constantly trying to refresh.  I don't know if I'm actually typing that fast, or if I've got a crappy network connection, or what.  The bottom line is that I'm finding it annoying.

Luckily, I use the customized iGoogle thing, which doesn't even have the new instant search thing available yet.  So I don't even have to bother with disabling it right now.

[Vector]

Yeah, I'm not especially fond of this.  My google-fu is good enough, and my searches obscure enough, that I know which words I'm going to need to put in to get what I want to come out.  The flickering is just a distraction.

[Leafsnail]

Can't really tell the difference?

[Fossaman]

I almost always use the google search toolbar widget that comes pre-installed with firefox, so I didn't notice this until this thread pointed it out. I'm definitely keeping it turned off. It's just a fancy version of autocomplete, which I never use anyway.

[Diablous]

I turned it off. All it really seems to do is distract me when I'm busy looking for something.