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Martin Brinkmann at gHacks reports
When Google launched Google Instant Search back in 2010, the company called it a fundamental shift in search that would save searchers time when running searches on Google.
Instant Search displayed search results page to the user during the process of typing the actual search phrase the user was interested in.
In [the] best case, it would display the desired results earlier. In [the] worst case, it would throw a number of unrelated search results page at you while you tried to focus on typing your search query.
[...] I disabled Instant Search as soon as it came out. [It] was terribly annoying if you typed long queries quickly.
The feature could also jack up bandwidth [usage,] as more results pages may have had to be loaded during your typing of the search phrase you were interested in.
Starting [July 27], Google Instant Search is no more. The company has put the feature to rest, all thanks to the rise of mobile and the fact that Instant Search does not really work that well on mobile devices for a number of reasons.
Do any Soylentils still do searches from Google's landing page?
Once you get a Google result, have you then been typing into Google's page to refine your search?
I hated Mozilla's AwesomeBar and, when I encountered Instant Search (on the library's machine), I was irritated. (I do searches as URLs, from the Address Bar; it's one reason that I hate most Google "replacements", which are script-driven and don't show you a URL that you can repost.)
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @08:58AM
When Google introduced Instant Search, that was ultimately what drove me away from Google search. Initially, I didn't care much because it could be avoided by just disabling JavaScript for Google. But then, they changed the domain name for Google Maps from maps.google.com to be served from the same google.com domain as the search, which meant I no longer could at the same time enable JavaScript for maps (which doesn't work without JavaScript — and no, no need to tell me about OpenStreetMap; today I know about it, but back then I didn't) and disable it for search. Since I simply couldn't stand Instant Search (and there was no way that I'd get a Google account, which as far as I could see was the only other way to get rid of it), I finally did the step away from Google.
So, good job, Google, you've lost an user over your misfeature.