Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Google Instant speeds up search

Google introduced Google Search Instant Wednesday with the results given to users as they enter the letters of words - not even their own words. The change should save users 2-5 seconds for each search, the company said."It's a fundamental change in the research, the speed and ease with which people can find information," said Melissa Mayer, Google's vice president of search products and user experience during a news conference that Google itself posted on YouTube (it owns)."This is not a search as you type, it is research before you type," she said. For example, from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, where the news conference was held, she typed the first four letters of "Fauvism" - and discussed the results for the movement of early 20th century in painting based solely on the first four letters.With Google instant, "we really predict what application you're likely to make and give you the results that," she said.Just by typing the letter "W", for example (try it in the search box), raises the first two results in gray below the search box: Wal-Mart and the weather. (Third is Wells Fargo). Type "G" - and "Gmail" is the first.Co-founder Sergey Brin said Google Instant is "just a piece of a very changing landscape in the calculation ... (who) will change the way you interact with computers" in the coming years.Brin, like a light side, noted that the company focus is "making Google the third half of your brain." Funny in a scary kind of way - and probably not far from the truth, with many of us rely on the information society.Google provides instant results "instantly in a way that has never been done before," said Jonathan Effrat, product manager for Google, in an instant video on Google (see below). "Now, the results appear automatically as you type, without having to hit enter or click the Search button. Once you see what must specify in the text of gray you can stop typing and just look down to find the results you expected .. see the results instantly, you can refine your search as you type - the search for a bird? card? A recipe? You'll know instantly if you're on the right track to finding what you want. "The research approach aims to "put users 2-5 seconds per application," said Mayer."This may not seem like much, but ultimately save more than 3.5 billion seconds per day, or" 11 hours per second. "Instant Google includes predictive modeling - "it's not quite psychic, but he is intelligent," said Hansson Othar, Google senior engineer - and "scroll research" to scroll the predictions and see immediately results for each arrow down like you.To reassure users who may just want to keep typing in the search box without paying attention to changes, "said Mayer," Google works seamlessly as it always has. All Instant Google does as you accelerate.Ben Gomes, who holds the title of Google Distinguished Engineer, said instant AJAX integrates Web applications. AJAX is used to create points doodly that Google used its homepage to search Tuesday and Wednesday, teasing the users on the changes were afoot.Building AJAX search, rather than relying on a static HTML page, was "not a simple problem," said Gomes.But he said: "This is the future direction of research, it makes the search much more pleasant, fluid, interactive, and in so doing, you learn more and enrich your life."Instant is available immediately in the United States, and in the coming weeks in other countries in the world, "said Mayer. First place is Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany, Spain and Russia. Google said it will instantly available for mobile devices this fall.Google recently launched a website for users who want to sift through news, reviews and other information on the Internet in real time, allowing them to monitor conversations on social networking hubs like Facebook and Twitter in one location.While some other efforts by Google, including Buzz and the company's own phone Nexus, have stumbled, Google search remains the king and it is crucial for her to remain king of search. Google has about two-thirds of the search market in the U.S., but faces slighty erosion of market shares of Yahoo, which has partnered with Microsoft. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture between Microsoft and NBC Universal.)Texas Attorney General last week the state has confirmed it has launched an investigation into the Google search, spurred by complaints that the company has abused its power as an engine of the Internet search dominance.

Google speeds up queries with "instant" results

Google speeds up queries with "instant" results

Those who find the Google search engine to be incredibly slow host Google instant upgrade to the company's results it unveiled Wednesday.

People read faster than they type, Google said, and seeing the results of preliminary research in the field of research means that people have to type less and can tailor their searches on the fly.

Google Instant saves two to five seconds for each search, Google said. In a world of hectic schedules, Google said it will save people cumulatively over 3.5 billion seconds each day, or 11 hours every second.

The immediate result will be the new standard format for users in the United States and some other countries that have sufficiently modern browsers. He will drive the company to mobile search this fall.

Start typing "San Francisco" in the search box, and by the time you pass through "San", you will already see a map of the city, a collection of photographs of monuments and links to Alcatraz and the center of San Francisco visitors. Or without having to type something more, guess next, select Google, Santa Cruz, and see a map, photos and links for this city. Type 'the gi "and the search box shows the girl with the dragon tattoo," as if she was reading your mind.

"We're really predict what application you're likely to do and we give you the results for that," said Marissa, vice president of Google search products and user experience, as it has demonstrated the capability to press conference at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.

Google is proud to offer faster and more relevant results than other search engines. While the engineering behind the scenes, which generates these results is an important reason why Google gets most of the research, it may be difficult for the average user notice. The instant results make it much clearer.

Before the event, Eric Schmidt, Google chief executive, took to Twitter, where it is usually very quiet, and says, "I foresee great things happening now to Google. We are already very fast. .. is about to get faster. "

Google launches instant, like Yahoo + Bing rolling

Google is now starting a new feature called "Instant Google" which guesses what you're looking for as soon as you start typing in its main search page.
The function, which will run over several days for people using the latest browsers, performs the search box and shaded with words, you start typing - trying to complete your thoughts before you type.
During a press conference in San Francisco that was also posted on YouTube, Google Vice President Marissa Mayer called "looking at the speed of thought" and attacking "Quantum Leap" for research.
Google says researcher typically takes more than 9 seconds to enter a term, and "several" searches took 30-90 seconds to type. He believes Google will instantly save two to five seconds for each search. From the release:
Our idea was this technical type of people slowly but read quickly, usually taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (one tenth of the time!) To view another part of the page. This means that you can scan a page of results as you type.We'll see how it works for people who take 90 seconds to type a search query.
But Google still instantly change the way many people use Google and could shake up the search marketing industry.
Some users may find annoying or creepy and disable the feature, although most probably will not bother to change the default setting.
Search Marketing will have to rethink their complicated strategies to push their sites higher in Google results. The gold ring is now to bring a company to appear automatically as people start typing.
A wonderful thing about Google's search algorithms is equal to how they try to level the ground and expose people to a breadth of information on the web. I wonder if serendipity and discovery that comes to research will be sacrificed just for convenience and speed.
It's like over-engineering library. The transaction would be most effective to have a librarian Standing by the door, give you a book that you step inside, thinking that's what you like. Why bother to look any further?
Google is not the instantaneous speed of your research and saves people time.Google is already very fast, but he is probably tired of saying that Microsoft Bing is more effective.
What is the faster the rate of innovation is happening in the research enterprise, now that Bing get a certain scale.
Last update comes shortly after Google search partnership with Yahoo Microsoft has taken effect. Together, they gave Bing a great leap of market share - 24.56 percent in the last week of August, according to a report from Experian Hitwise yesterday.
Experian report said that people were using shorter queries on search engines.Longer queries, an average of five to eight words long, was down 2 percent from July to August, and queries of two words represented 23.71 percent of searches. Google handled 71.59 percent of searches during the entire month.

How Google Instant adapt to users? And does it change the search experience?

How will Google Instant change your browsing habits? More importantly, how Google Instant adapt to your questions? We conducted our own experience
So now that we have determined that Google is an instant saving of time, to restore from 8.3 minutes to 20.8 minutes per week for users who make 50 searches per day Google, Larry Dignan and I started getting fun experimenting with the research themselves.
Also: Meet Instant Google: Results of queries are typed
Google said the ranking does not change with Instant - but we tried to understand whether the research was adapted for users based on personal history (for Google account holders that are connected) or location. Our conclusion: location matters.
For example, Larry, who is based in the Philadelphia area, New York, typed in "EA" and saw the results that led to the "Eagles" as the NFL's Philadelphia Eagles.


Being here in Silicon Valley, California, I saw the results that have made more sense, bringing with "Earthquake":


Does that mean that the personal story of research has nothing to do with the results?I certainly would not go that far - but I put more weight on the impact of geolocation.When I logged into my Google account and conducted the same research, the results were the same.
Of course, our own queries to add the database of Google's popular search, enabling the firm to build in this prediction technology. But what does this mean for your own privacy? What about the search engine optimization? Google is really the end Snapshot SEO?
It seems premature to make quick judgments on Google instant. After all, it only live for a couple of hours. Try your own experiments with Google instantaneous and let us know your findings. I suspect this will be another of those love-it-or-hate-it kinds of tools.

Meet Google Instant: Results as queries are typed

Google today announced a speed boost to its search technology, eliminating the need to press the Return key to see the search results. A new tool, called Google instant, allows users to see the results in real time as they type.

At a demonstration today, the company said it has strengthened research over the years to make the process faster on its end, the deployment of improved tools for research and refinement by adding real-time results, such as streaming titles and tweets related to the query.

But this approach allows users to optimize the time it takes for them not the only type of query, but also scan the results.

The tool was actually a "psychic element," predict what a user types a few letters fir the request. It does not search as you type, but rather the type of research before you, "said company.

Initially, I had my reservations about it, wondering if it would create more noise in the search results. Then I did the same research that many people do - I Google'd. I found that the noise has been effectively reduced.

Aas I typed the "S" on my behalf, Skype came first. (It's nice for Skype.) Then came Safeway, followed by Samsung and, finally, with the first letter of my surname, auto-complete list me as the third line.

Not bad.

In fact, the company has made some calculations on a time-saving coming from the new search technology - an average of 2-5 seconds for each search. In total, Google estimates users will save 11 hours with each passing second.

So if I make 50 searches per day and 3.5 seconds to save the search (the midpoint of the average) than the 175 seconds per day, about 3 minutes. At the end of the week is a bit lower savings of 15 minutes. (Hey, Larry, I will take a long lunch on Friday from now on.)

The service will be available later today on Google.com on Google Chrome, Safari, Firefox and IE8 browsers. It will be available immediately in the U.S., but will be deployed over the coming weeks at the international level for users who log into their Google Accounts.

And see how typing on a mobile phone can still be a challenge, the company is working on Google for search and mobile instant that he will be ready later this year.

Google Just Killed The "I'm Feeling Lucky Button"

Google has actually offed this oldest, quirkiest features - the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button.
The good news is that in the process, Google has added at least another hundred million dollars in revenue.
Formerly, you can go to Google.com, type a search query into the search field then clicking on "I'm feeling lucky, go directly to the page that was listed as a search result above.
But today, events, and Google announced "Google instantly." Now when you go to Google.com and start typing a search in the search bar, Google starts instantly display the search results. Users no longer have the ability to click on the button "I'm lucky" before they begin to see the search results. Essentially, the function is dead.
So how does killing the "I'm feeling lucky" Google button earning more than $ 100 million?
In 2007, the head of Google's search Marissa Mayer estimated that 1% of all Google searches go through the button "I Lucky - skip the pages of Google search results is quite.
This means that Google has shown ZERO ads (and thus received zero clicks on ads) on 1% of all Google search queries. Back in 2007, one analyst suggested the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button Google has probably cost as much as $ 110,000,000 per year.
Back then, Marissa Mayer said Google had not dropped because the button "It is possible to become too dry, too corporate, too much about making money."
She said: "I think what is pleasant" I'm Feeling Lucky "is that it reminds you there are people here."
Today, Marissa comes to eat his (cup) cake and have too much. The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button is still there on Google.com - perhaps to remind users that there are real people with Google - but it was made entirely irrelevent.

Google unveils instant search

The Google homepage is sporting a new logo that changes color as you type, and probably a touch bigger than what the company will announce when it "can not miss" search event on Wednesday.
When you arrive on the homepage search giant today, you will be greeted with a Google doodle gray. When you start typing a search query, if the color is magically iconic logo of Google. This follows yesterday's logo, a collection of animated particles that react to movements of the cursor.
Like many in the media have noted, the series of logos for this week is not only Googlers having fun is also an important clue to what the company will unveil at a press conference occurred Wednesday morning in San Francisco.
If the logo today is any indication, Google is about to unveil an overhaul of real-time search. This is not about adding Twitter and Facebook for the Google search results but what is the point of the search results change as you type, a new feature Google has tested recently. Also likely to be announced tomorrow: AJAX search results.
Update: A live-blogging the press conference of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
9:38 PT: We'll start with a "State of the Union" speech on the Google search. The emphasis, of course, is on speed and make the search experience faster.
9:39: "One part art, a science."
9:40: Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience is now on stage. It started with a great stat: one billion per week researchers
9:41: Now, Mayer is to discuss some of the new features of Google Search (Google search). Google Caffeine, real-time search, the chronology, spelling corrections, improvements to the Q & A, star search, etc.
9:42: Google Squared is under discussion.
9:43: Mayer is to discuss the redesign of Google, which launched in May And now she plays the company's commercial aired during the Super Bowl.
9:45: "Today represents a fundamental change in research." Mayer is to discuss why we are in MOMA's announcement today, beginning with a discussion of a Matisse painting in the museum here the woman with a hat.
9:48: She is to discuss the painting Lichtenstein Mirror, which is only at MOMA in certain periods. Google search can help you learn more about it and know where he is.
9:48: It takes nine seconds for a user enter a query into Google. It is 800 ms for time networking, 300 ms for the significance of the results, and 15 seconds to select a search result.
9:50: The search for speed problem is to increase the period of nine seconds for the type and results of 15 seconds of navigation. It takes time to type and think simply.But Google believes it can make even more effective.
9:51: Launch: Instant Google
09:52: Instant Google automatically takes search results as you type. There is not hitting the key to everything. The results appear when you type a letter. It predicts what you're about to type and provides results based on these forecasts.
9:53: The demo ... Wow, it's fast. Simply touch the tab to perform a search query, or you can scroll with the arrow keys to view search results for various queries related or anticipated.
9:54: The demo continues. "Fauvism" is the search term. With "Beast, Google displays search results already. Mayer does not call this research" as you type, "but" research before you type. "It is the predictive technology.
9:56: Mayer is a Fools Day joke in April 2000 Google, MentalPlex, who allegedly planned research
9:57: Available in Chrome, Firefox, Safari and IE8 from today. It deploys in the U.S. today, and it will roll internationally next week. United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain and Russia, if you're logged into your Google account.
9:58: Now, the Google team is instant on stage. Johanna Wright, director of product management, and Othar Hansson, Senior Software Engineer staff.
10:00: With a quick key, "w", you'll instantly get the weather forecast. Wow.
10:01: Hansson typed "IG. The gray text that appears after you've typed is called the text provided. In this case, is" The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo ".
10:03: Go to the search demonstration. "Yose," predicts Yosemite National Park. Pressing the down arrow, you can see the accommodations, maps, camping, weather, etc.
10:06: "What is it that the search button there, anyway?" Since search results are instant. If you press Enter, it ends your search when you typed, rather than what it predicts you type. Same goes for the "Search" button.
10:09: "Caval" brings you all the team sports. K Rider "allows you to Cavalier King Charles Spaniel.
10:11: Google Mobile IM comes to this fall! Is Google doing demonstrations on a Droid. As you start typing, Google will provide search results instantly, even on mobile.
10:14: "We need to do, and we must do now." Ben Gomes is now on stage talking about the challenges Google's instant. This is the UI and UX and making sure that Google does not melt Instant servers society.
10:19: Google is now discuss the research behind Google instant. The company is showing off how a user views a Web page, particularly the monitoring of eye movements.
10:20: Google is to search an AJAX application. He did it with Gmail and other applications, but never looking. They talk about how Google works instantly.Specifically, how AutoComplete search requests are automatically sent to Google servers, then expectations and the search results page will return. The experiment does not work if the browser takes longer to make the javascript that send queries back and forth.
10:23: Twenty billion searches per day. The company talks about why they are reduced to as research when it is not even that many people on the planet.
10:24: optimizations. Prioritizing research was important to extend instant Google.
10:26: It is a great team that made this possible. They have dozens of faces on the main projector screen. There are two counters that are on the increase of 34,000. It refers to the hours recorded by Google instant.