On 13 September 2010 14:43, Christopher Woods <chris...@infinitus.co.uk>wrote:

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>   >   On 11/09/2010 09:26, Brian Butterworth wrote:
>> > > They covered it all here:
>> > >
>> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i0eMHRxlJ2c
>> > >
>> > > Brian Butterworth
>> > Bit of a con in parts. I thought the search for a "woman" in
>> > the museum was fake.
>>
>> Amusingly enough I was trying out Google Scribe only a month or so before
>> Google Instant was rolled out (http://scribe.googlelabs.com/), it's
>> essentially identical tech sans search box.
>>
>
> Well and the results.  Google Instant isn't the easy autocomplete bit, it
> is the provision of instant results.
>
> Of course, and the results ;-) It's a nice show-off feat nonetheless,
> although the Beeb News article about how clever design is 'making us
> stupider' did chime with me to an extent. What will really be impressive is
> when they manage to get it native in HTML5 for Android phones, that's their
> next step, I think that's the problem this particular solution will fit with
> more than desktop usage (I actually craft my desktop search queries quite
> specifically based on past experience of Google's engine)
>
> It seems very "back to the future".  About 15 years ago, we reached this
point of interactivity with PC applications.  And then we went back to what
seemed to me "3270 mode" with HTTP.  It's taken a decade and a half to get
back to half-decent interactivity.

The caching and customized prediction are quite impressive.  I just love
stuff like that.

B

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