Postby origami_alligator » 2010.09.09 (17:12)
My first experience with Google Instant was pleasurable. I was with my girlfriend, discussing foreign languages and decided to look on Google to see the estimated number of people she could speak Russian with. I typed in "Population of Russia" and instantly got a result, with a little graph of the population growth over the last 100 years or something. Then I wanted to see the estimated number of people I could potentially speak Italian to, so I deleted "Russia" and replaced it with "Italy" and immediately got another result, complete with a little graph.
But then I tried some other searches, like free tent camping around the area I'm in, places to eat at, maps of the surrounding areas, etc. It become annoying and a chore to look through the various results that came up. Because I was too distracted with the first 10 results that kept coming up instantly I didn't take the time to look through a couple pages of results and find the best website that fit /my/ needs, as sometimes they rest on the 2nd or 3rd page of results. Instead I was frantically typing, specifying my search query more and more until I became too overloaded with information to even care about what I was searching for in the first place. I quietly closed google and continued what I was doing beforehand.
I can see this being most useful for data and statistics queries, but for something like "Best Pizza in Jackson, WY" it kind of fails, terribly.
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