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 TheRaven on Saturday July 29 2017, @07:54AM (1 child)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 29 2017, @10:42PM
OS X is horrible about that. Maybe things were better back in the MacOS days, but now it seems every application has to be different, with a different look and feel and UI. A lot of Apple's own applications are pretty big offenders. Things like the Home and End keys (does Apple even put those on their computers anymore?) will do different things, including nothing at all, and the only way to know is to try it and find out what happens. In comparison Windows is actually pretty consistent (though not nearly as much as before), though some shitty software such as iTunes still likes to do its own thing.