Google unveils Google Instant

Google, the Search Engine leader comes out with many new and innovative features that would make the search engine more accurate and faster so that it stands out from the rest of the competitors in the field. When its competitors announce a new feature in their search engines, the Search Leader (Google) surprises everyone with more advanced features in it. As we have seen in the past to help it one-up the competition and maintain their dominance in the search engine arena Google had unveiled a set of new features like Real time search, mobile search updates, Google googles and voice translation, when Bing had announced twitter integration, visual search and a new Maps application. This makes no surprise to me that Google successfully crossed the one billion users a week milestone recently.

Today Google unveiled its new Instant search feature - Google Instant, which auto loads search results as we type >. Basically, the Google no longer waits for us to hit Enter while searching and starts updating its results page Instantly as we type. Google describes it as a fundamental shift in search engines and has estimated that it'll accumulate a 350 million saved hours over the course of a year.

Google's also integrated a predictive algorithm into Instant, which it describes as a "psychic element, in that it is able to predict what we're going to type. Gmail already does this with contacts, and it’s a big time saver. Now extend that concept to a half-dozen other forms of local search: Google Books, Google Scholar, Froogle, Desktop, News, Reader, Apps, Images etc. Imagine it in all of Google’s local search sites, popping up thumbnails and textual descriptions.

Google Instant isn't yet available for mobile, but the plan is to release it soon. This might be coming this fall. The service is rolling out right now to signed-in users some of us even got to use it ahead of the announcement, but it's pretty much a question of luck as to when you might get it over the next few days. The first countries to benefit from this new hotness are the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Russia, and Spain and of course the United States as, while Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer 8 are the first supported browsers.

Right now Google instant might not save significant time but with more and more refinement of algorithms it would understand and predict what user is going to search and thus would successfully serve the master better.