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September 8, 2010 8:20 PM EDT
Google's latest technological advance allows for users to get real time, streaming page results as they type.
Called Google Instant, it automatically updates the page as the user types in the search box. It predicts what they are searching for and streams page results as the user is typing. According to a Google blog announcing the new technology, it allows for users to search 2-5 seconds fast per search input.
By simply typing the letter, "w," a user can get page results for "weather." If they get more specific, like typing "wat" - the page results shift to "water." It continues to stream results based on what the user is writing.
"Instant takes what you have typed already, predicts the most likely completion and streams results in real-time for those predictions-yielding a smarter and faster search that is interactive, predictive and powerful," Marissa Mayer, vice president of search, said in a blog post.
Mayer clarified that Google Instant isn't "search as you type," but rather it's "search before you type." She said the technology allows Google to predict what the user wants to search for, before they type it in the box.
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"It's not quite physic, but it's very clever," Mayer said in the press conference.
In order to get Google Instant to work, the company said it had to develop a number of new technologies. This included new caching systems, the ability to adaptively control the rate at which results pages show and an optimization of the page rendering JavaScript. The latter technology allowed web browsers to keep up with the new streaming system.
According to Google, the new instant feature will be available on Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Safari and Internet Explorer 8. Along with the U.S., it will be available in France, Germany, Italy, Russia, Spain and the U.K. as well.
Google, which is the dominant number one search engine on the web, said it plans on implementing Instant over the next few months.
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