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[sheepdog]

My vote goes for annoying. The first few times I used it I found it confusing that I was getting results before I even had my query typed all the way in, and it was bring up stuff I wasn't looking for to start with.
But on the other hand, if they have their search engine working that fast, I supose it might be a good thing.

[mahesh2k]

Exactly. What annoying is that - it shows content before you stop typing. I mean some keywords are mixed up and they try to analyze by comparing it with previous queries. In many cases those unrelated queries makes it annoying. Because unrelated queries bring unrelated search results. I hope they keep opt-out option for some more time and don't assume that all people have broadband or faster connection to tolerate this. Weird but they implemented turn-off feature which is rare from google because they don't enabled such feature without any public response.

[k_nitin_r]

Google Instant search automatically detects that you are on a slow connection and disables the instant search feature. It is still not something I would want a search engine to do, nevertheless, and there's a link to disable the Google Instant search to the right of the search input textbox. If it really really really does bother you, have a go at using DuckDuckGo.com - it's a neat search engine that I turn to whenever Google tosses that captcha stuff at me, refusing to believe that I am a hydrocarbon based life form or the *person* sapien species. "C'mon, Google, trust me! I'm human!" Ah, but those are the times when Google doesn't even trust the response to its Captcha because irrespective of what I type in, it keeps tossing that Captcha screen at me, so at the first glimpse of the Captch screen, I would switch to DuckDuckGo.

There were other search engines that came and went, and Cuil.com is one of the more populat ones. I've never really used Yahoo or Bing search in the past decade because they don't have the simplistic look that a search engine should have. Bing seems to have taken a couple of concepts off Google, but has yet to figure out that some folk don't want a large image loading every time they visit the page because it takes a couple of seconds to load and people want to have an instant up-there page that they can access to perform searches, unless they are using the browser search feature from the toolbar.

BTW, while on the topic of Google, is anyone out there still using Google Wave? Apparently, it was a pretty big hype and it did start off well but then folks just couldn't get off the other means of communication that they typically use. We've got IRC that most open-source communities still use, there's Facebook, and for pretty much everything else there is GMail with the chat functionality built right in. For conference chats, folks use Skype... though it does need a good connection to work correctly.

[mahesh2k]

google wave was good program and there were plenty of commercial uses for that which i personally like. Even internet marketing industry found it useful. I guess when facebook was in rise google decided to scrub it just like that. I just hope they don't remove some useful apps in future if they find any competition from others. I don't know if google wave is open sourced i guess that is better way for google to do that.

[PassionFruitMilkTea]

Wow, didn't know that instant search can be switched off. It was really annoying me when I want to refer to the search results and type in new search words.

None of my contacts use google wave anymore. When it first came out my friends and I were playing forum games on it and seeing it update in real time. Cheap entertainment which last for a few days.