Google Instant Search - Love it? Hate it? Don't care?

[lots0]

How do you feel about Google's new Instant Search?

[theshortstack]

Is this from a personal point of view or an affiliate point of view?

[lots0]

Is this from a personal point of view or an affiliate point of view?

Affiliate point of View...

[AussieDave]

Hi lots0 (all),

Great thread btw!

I like it, it means the hard work I put into my sites are being rewarded. Of course that could have a negative effect when you factor in rogue affiliates and blackhat $hit. However I also think Google is starting to get a handle on the dark side, so hopefully things will improve to benefit ethical webmasters.


Cheers



Dave

[WCD Admin]

I've seen the demo, but still haven't seen this thing live here. I wonder if it disables itself on slow internet connections?

[lauferb]

like everything that google does, it's just super

[Vladi]

I see it as pointless window-dressing. Google must be wasting a whole heap of bandwidth on it. In the end it saves you one whole press of the enter key all the while flashing up not very relevant results while you are in the middle of typing a query. And if the point of search is to return relevant results then they have potentially just made their search worse.

From an affiliate POV I can see how it could possibly "dumb down" some searches - eg if people who are about to type "casinos with 100% deposit bonuses" stop typing when they see some results after typing "casinos". That would be bad for sites dependent on long tail searches, but I am skeptical.

[Engineer]

I didn't care for it; I switched back to the non-instant interface.

[alex777]

I don't like it and I don't understand why it's on by default

Every time i clean cookies, I have to turn it off again

*From the user and from an affiliate point of view.

[Eugene]

a little bit stupid feature.