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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: 2) by inertnet on Friday July 28 2017, @10:15AM (3 children)
No Google but Youtube (==Google), which I have never used from my Android(==Google) phone. I use them from the same IP address, but so do the wife and kids, who each get their own suggestions from Google.
Come to think of it, we all have gmail accounts, so that's probably one vector they're using to keep us apart.
(Score: 2) by nobu_the_bard on Friday July 28 2017, @12:48PM (1 child)
They can track by IP address too. I have a pretty good idea what some of the searches my boss at work does thanks to this feature :)
(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 29 2017, @08:48PM
They can? They do. They've always done it. They just revealed the ability gradually so as to not freak their users out, as well as to safely determine the "creepiness level" their users will tolerate.
They're not the only ones who have always been doing it, either.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday July 28 2017, @01:16PM
If you must use gmail then use a separate browser. Never search in google while logged into google.