For those of you using Opera, this won't work for you as of yet. But to get it to work you can simply go to www.google.com. Right click anywhere on the page, hit Edit Site Preferences, select the Network tab, and next to Browser Identification select "Identify as Firefox" and that should do it.
sounds like the difference is it starts actually loading search results of what it's predicting you'll type... So if you type R-O-C-K-E... it may predict rockets and start loading it up? Is that right? Because it sounds like most are saying the difference is instead of clicking the mouse you just press Enter instead, which i though was already possible before?? Also, whatvr the difference is, Google says it may not reach everyone at once, so if you dont have it now, try later. I guess it'll take a few days to complete.
Here's an example, let's say you want to search "Rocket Science". Type "rock" and it will automatically bring up the search results below the search bar. You don't need to hit enter or anything. Continue typing to complete the word "rocket" and it almost instantaneously changes to searches for rocket. Finish the word by typing "rocket science" and you'll get the links for rocket science. You don't even need to click enter. Type in the word and go straight to the mouse to browse for the link you want. It basically streamlines the searching process tremendously because it's giving you results in real-time as you type. I'm with A_3po. This is a game-changer.
Why do we say "game-changer" even if we're not in an organized game...? I mean, if we were in a game, we would keep score, have referees, and keep stats... but we don't... so... it's weird... isn't it? Yeah, you thought I had forgotten about those... didn't you?
Oh ok, thanks. i get it and mine just started working....seems like it helps, but i'll have to try it out some more to know how much of a difference it'll make. Right now it seems to depend on the word(s), sometimes it's worth it and sometimes it's not, which i guess is a win anyway.
That's an interesting perspective. If not for the responses in this thread, I would have had no idea that anyone thought it was a big deal. I noticed it today, didn't like it, and immediately disable it.
This is one of those technological advances that make me say "whatever". Yay, now I don't have to hit "Enter". Big whoop. What other advantage is there? It's a tech advance, but I'm not sure how big of a real-world advance it is.
I'm really curious how much extra computational power google is wasting so that people have the convenience of not pressing enter.
If you start typing something for which you don't like the results, you don't have to wait for a page loading for you to know that's what you want results on. For example, if you start typing "rockets" and you see results about NASA and stuff, you might want to reconsider it, press backspace, and start typing "Houston" before "rockets"... maybe? I see that as a possible real-world way of using the 'instant search' feature.
Search results take less than a second to get back to me. There isn't much of a wait. Lol. I admit it's incremental evolution, but it's not like what everybody's making it out to be. But again, maybe I'm still missing some potential in it.
I like. But not a big deal to me. Not enough for me to sign in and have them gather even more data on me (which they likely do anyways). I'd expect the others to have something similar by Christmas.
^Google does gather your info. They probably know more about you than your loved ones. So do credit card companies and possibly cell phone companies.
Some earlier posts said you did. But I noticed you didn't -- since it worked for my unsigned-in browsing today. Didn't work for me yesterday. Did you google those hats? The expression on that cat is awesome. A kitty rolleyes for real .
