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What is Google Instant?

by Paul Manalo

Created on: September 11, 2010   Last Updated: September 30, 2010

Google had been known for its innovation on how it managed to provide ease in the access of the billions or even trillions of information web pages on the web. With more than one billion of searches done everyday, the search industry is becoming a vital and important household tool for each one of us. People who uses the computer and the internet constantly find themselves using search engines. From a simple web surfer up to a heavy researcher, the search function became a very important part of their everyday lives.

On this note, Google once again is providing an innovative web technology that will give an ease and additional functionality to the people who uses Google as a search engine. Google had introduced Google Instant which is providing an innovative way of doing searches in Google's search engine. As people who are searching using Google typed their queries, the engine is providing the possible search item that you are looking as you typed the letters. Google Instant is predicting the most likely items that you are searching and providing you an easy way to access them immediately even without typing the item completely and even hitting enter. As you type the first characters of the letters, Google Instant is providing you the search results page instantly which saves you from completing the item you are searching, hitting the enter key. This function also help you to find something that you are really not sure you are looking.

With Google Instant, Google is claiming that every user is saving valuable 2-5 seconds per search. It also provide a smarter predictions which save your finger tips in completing the order or can direct you to items that you are not really fully aware of. Rather than waiting for the results to pop out after entering the enter key, the results of the most likely item that you are typing will immediately pop in to your screen and immediately change as soon as you type more characters that will resemble a more accurate match.

People who are using Google Instant are very positive on this new innovations of Google. Surely, it saves valuable time in the part of the searchers or researchers. Many people type slowly but read quickly is one of the cornerstone and rationale of this innovation. Once again, Google is stretching the components of technology and the creativity of the human mind to provide a better service to its users. Google Instant is surely an innovative add-on to our daily task over the internet that will surely provide us a more easy use and access on the information on the web.

References

Google (2010) About Google Instant. Retrieved September 11, 2010 from [http://www.google.com/instant/]

Google Blog (2010) Search: now faster than the speed of type. Retireved September 11, 2010 from [http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2010/09/search-now-f aster-than-speed-of-type.html]

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