Google Instant is the latest “innovation” from Google engineers. You know Google Suggest, which starts showing you search suggestions as you type – this starts showing you a SERP that changes as you type. As you can see below, until I typed the whole phrase, I got irrelevant results:
Don’t be in a hurry, if you are outside the US, Canada, and parts of Europe, Google Instant is a nuisance. If you want to see it now, just log into your Google Account. (Even then some people won’t see it for a while). YouTube presentation below:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ElubRNRIUg4[/youtube]
Apparently, this saves 2-5 seconds per search — I think this will use up your bandwidth unless you turn it off — that is also an option. I will give it some time to and see if I have to eat my words later. 🙂 What do you think?
Added: Matt Cutts has typed his Thoughts on Google Instant:
Q: Will Google Instant change search engine optimization?
A: I think over time it might. The search results will remain the same for a query, but it’s possible that people will learn to search differently over time. For example, I was recently researching a congressperson. With Google Instant, it was more visible to me that this congressperson had proposed an energy plan, so I refined my search to learn more, and quickly found myself reading a post on the congressperson’s blog that had been on page 2 of the search results.