Thoughts on Google Instant

The blogosphere is absorbing today’s announcement of Google Instant. I wanted to give some context and some thoughts.

Google’s web search (and web search infrastructure) team tries to do several things well: - We want the most comprehensive index of the web. We explore ways to crawl the web deeper, faster, and better, from increasing our index size or indexing speed to crawling web forms to discovering links in JavaScript. - We try to return relevant, useful results. Hundreds of people work on lots of improvements to our ranking algorithms. - We try to return your search results really fast. - We try to improve our search user interface (UI).

The first three things aren’t highly visible. Average users might not notice changes like Caffeine (improved indexing) or a better algorithm to detect hacked sites–although we have seen effects like users searching more when we deploy a fresher index. A bunch of people at Google have come up with amazing ways to make your search res [...]
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Date : 2010-09-08 22:09:00
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Author : Matt Cutts

One of several Googlers who answer questions online and sometimes for the press.
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