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 RamiK on Friday July 28 2017, @10:58AM (4 children)
Collage versus college gets me every time.
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(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday July 28 2017, @03:13PM (1 child)
Dew knot truss yore spill checker!
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(Score: 3, Funny) by Reziac on Saturday July 29 2017, @02:43AM
Y/o/u/r/ You're right. I tried trussing my coffee cup so it wouldn't spill, but that durn dew knot didn't hold...
And there is no Alkibiades to come back and save us from ourselves.
(Score: 2, Informative) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 29 2017, @12:07AM (1 child)
One I've been seeing a lot lately in the corporate world is principle vs. principal.
You'd think people with business degrees would be able to write basic English.
(Score: 2) by RamiK on Saturday July 29 2017, @07:26AM
Yeah that one would get me too.
It would be nice if the spell-checkers would prioritize common mistakes instead of just following alphabetical order. Like, you'd right click "princeple" and get:
principle: n, fundamental truth or...
principal: n, person with the highest...
princeling: ...
princely: ...
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And when you'd hover over the context menu entry, the full definition would expand.
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