Google to provide live search to avoid keystroke
By siliconindia   |   Monday, 23 August 2010, 23:50 IST   |    2 Comments
Printer Print Email Email
Google to provide live search to avoid keystroke
Bangalore: Google is developing a new kind of search capability that delivers the results instantly as you type the letters. It doesn't require keystroke on "Enter" or "Return". The new experiment was discovered by search engine optimization consultant Rob Ousbey, who noticed the results being delivered instantly and wrote about it and others have confirmed it. He also recorded a video to show it. Google has also confirmed to TechCrunch that the video is real. Once you start typing, the search box is relocated to the top of the site. Results are changed to match what you type, kind of like a Firefox page search, Spotlight on the Mac, or Windows 7's 'Search programs and files' field in the start menu. We have to wait and see if the new capability is launched as a standard part of Google's search engine. It would definitely save time as we type familiar searches. These live search results are not yet available to the public as limited CPU power or bandwidth is likely to slowdown live updates for searches of this kind. Google is known to regularly test new features with very small selections of users. Many of those features never see a public launch, but some do. Last week it launched Google Apps Search, which searches Google's Gmail, Docs and Sites web apps. Google spokesperson Gabriel Stricker said that at any given time, we are running between 50-200 search experiments.

siliconindia