Comments on: Google Goes Instant

By: John at Website Building biz

John at Website Building biz — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 22:30:33 +0000

Hey how is it going? I was wrong about the Feeling Lucky button – or at least Google decided they were wrong to remove it so they’ve put it back in. I’m kind of glad to see it there again, even if I never use it, it is just a familiar part of the web at this point in time 🙂

I definitely agree though, I think the auto-suggestions were probably the bigger game changer here and the instant results are kind of just a natural evolution to that. Personally, I find it a little distracting but it doesn’t seem to change my own searching behavior one way or the other.

By: chuck wuz here

chuck wuz here — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 18:32:05 +0000

hey John,
I didn’t realize that the “I feel lucky” button was RIP. 🙁
I’m seeing a lot of discussion over the “instant results” thing, but my feeling is that google suggest was the big game changer, and this will be pretty minor.
I think I read a while ago that 75% of searches used ot be unique (a string of words that had never been searched for before). I wonder what it is now. I’m guessing that google suggest and now google instant is really moving people to search for what other people have already searched for, and that the percentage of unique searches is shrinking. Have you seen anything on this? Steve