On the one hand I feel this is kind of "rude" and distracting. By "rude" I mean that I haven't finished typing and the page isn't waiting for its turn to interject.
On the other, this is just the logical extension of autocomplete on a search form. Even on a mobile phone, we already have this kind of predictive text functionality.
I guess we'll see with usage. For the most part though, I use FF's built-in search box, so I won't get to test it much.
I use Chrome and thus the url bar is my search box, so I won't be able to use it much either (unless it's somehow integrated into Chrome which I'd expect).
I don't really see the benefit here. I understand it may save 2-5 seconds per search, but it's not as if though those 2-5 seconds are improving my experience any.
Assuming the time saved was important, they should've just implemented an AJAX search instead: type, press enter, dynamic load without page refresh. That's the real time killer. Having the results change while I'm typing is actually kind of annoying.
The real question for me is whether I'll ever see this behavior. Other than the occasional image search, I do basically all my searching via the Chrome tab-complete search functionality.
I'm sure I'm in the minority of Google users, and those of use exclusively using the Chrome/FF/Safari/IE (such as it is) address bar searches are not numerous enough to impact the success of this initiative, but still. I also wonder if it will be good enough to drive any of us away from from the address bar search functionality.
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[ 2.7 ms ] story [ 30.3 ms ] threadOn the one hand I feel this is kind of "rude" and distracting. By "rude" I mean that I haven't finished typing and the page isn't waiting for its turn to interject.
On the other, this is just the logical extension of autocomplete on a search form. Even on a mobile phone, we already have this kind of predictive text functionality.
I guess we'll see with usage. For the most part though, I use FF's built-in search box, so I won't get to test it much.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672391 <- This has lots of comments
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672388 <- This is an explanation
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1672346 <- First
Assuming the time saved was important, they should've just implemented an AJAX search instead: type, press enter, dynamic load without page refresh. That's the real time killer. Having the results change while I'm typing is actually kind of annoying.
I'm sure I'm in the minority of Google users, and those of use exclusively using the Chrome/FF/Safari/IE (such as it is) address bar searches are not numerous enough to impact the success of this initiative, but still. I also wonder if it will be good enough to drive any of us away from from the address bar search functionality.