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Google Instant Hitting Mobile Devices Later this Fall

Sep 8, 2010, 12:13 PM by Eric M. Zeman
updated Sep 8, 2010, 2:14 PM

Google today introduced a change to its main internet search product called Google Instant. From Google.com, users who are signed into their accounts will see that Google Search performs instantaneous searches for queries as users type them. The tool is right now only available from desktop browsers. However, Google noted that Google Instant will be made available to mobile devices via their browser at some point later this fall. Google said that Google Instant should work in any mobile browser capable of handling AJAX. Google is first testing it on the Android and iPhone platforms, and is still weighing whether or not to offer it to BlackBerry 6, as well. The goal behind Google Instant is to reduce the time it takes to conduct searches and boost personal productivity.

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Slammer

Sep 8, 2010, 4:32 PM

Question.

How does this differ from Palm's WebOS on the Pre and Pixi? Having owned a Pre, all you had to do was slide the keyboard out, start typing and search suggestions would appear with many different info for contacts, web searches etc..... Very slick and fast. Is this the same premise?

John B.

crood

Those are essentially autocomplete. This performs the actual search and updates the results as you type.

I've already disabled it because it's slowing down my typing.

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