Posts About ‘Google Instant’

Pirate Bay is out of Instant Search, ‘Bisexual’ back in?

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Two years ago Google introduced “Google Instant”, which was an extended version of Google Suggest. Now not just the suggestions showed up, the page actually changes when typing in your search query, making that some people might decide to stop typing and pick a result which seems to be to their liking.

These suggestions ‘help’ people make their choices. But not all choices are good choices, according to Google at least. Which means the search engine banned specific sentences or searches from showing up in Google Instant. For words with for example sexual intent, that makes sense, you can for example search for the word “porn”, but there will be no suggestions there. If you want to see results on that term you first need to hit ‘enter’ to see the results.

Google now has banned another term: Torrentsite The Pirate Bay is taken out. On the other hand a much discussed term might be returning: bisexual. (more…)

Google Killed The Long Tail

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SEOBook has a very nice set of infographics which they publish regularly. This one is all about how Google killed the long tail with stuff like Google Instant, localization, updates like Mayday and Panda, verticals, scrapers and the ‘not provided’ keywords.

Are they right? (more…)

Yahoo launches Search Direct: an instant answer

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Just when you thought Yahoo was gone and lost they wake up from the dead. At the same time SES New York is going on, at the other side of the US, in San Francisco, Yahoo organized a press event in which it announced: Search Direct.

Search Direct is a service which gives you the answers to your search queries before you hit the actual search button. Sounds familiar? Yes, it is much like Google Instant. Yet Yahoo takes a little bit of a different approach. (more…)

Google continues to grow Instant: video previews now available

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Last week Google added the feature Instant Previews on the mobile to its mobile users. These users would now be able to watch snapshots of pages, something we were already capable of doing on the web.

We couldn’t however do that in the video section. Soon you will be able to. Google added the Instant feature to the videos making it possible to preview videos. (more…)

Bing html 5 is nearby: Bing Instant part of update

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Winrumors reports that Microsoft is getting ready to launch a special HTML5 version of Bing. This new version is part of the new release of Internet Explorer 9.

In the new Bing there will be lots of room for animation, including an animation which is much like Google Instant. Page elements will be automatically transitioned when typing a search query. (more…)

Google directing you off their homepage as fast as they can

The newest addition to Instant Search is popping up now. Google wants you off their homepage as fast as they can. The subtle change Google made in their philosophy page last week, which Searchengineland noticed, might have not been a mistake after all. Google really wants you off their homepage as fast as they can. If you go to your Google homepage and you start typing you will be directed off the homepage immediately into the SERPS where Google Instant goes and does its job. I didn’t see this last week, maybe it was there back then, but one thing is for sure, the time spent on the Google homepage will not increase because of this.

Check out what happens and try for yourself!

Go check out the post “Google tests show: Google planning on killing organic all together?” for more changes made by Google.