[CrazyInSane]

News article — http://news.cnet.com/8301-27076_3-20015836-248.html

Try it out now — http://www.google.com/webhp?sclient=psy

Doesn't yet work in some browsers; it worked for me in Chrome but not Firefox

 

[CenturyBreak]

So... this is just another way of presenting 'query suggestions in the search box', which they've been giving us for a few years already, no?

 

[North_of_Calgary]

No, it now gives the actual search results as you go, not just suggestions of search terms.

And it's working for me now in Chrome, IE, and FF.

 

[North_of_Calgary]

I turned "safesearch=off" and then tried some suggestive terms like "analyst" and "sextuplets" to see what I got as I go! Surprisingly not much bad came up along the way. Mostly thanks to the "Sex and the City" movie Although as I went I did get "naughty girls in your neighborhood" in the sponsored links. So you might not want to do instant search while hooked up to the work projector giving a presentation!

Impressive that page rank is keeping things moderately safe even with safesearch=off.

Overall I see this as a neat gimmick but pretty much just a waist of computing power. An impressive display of map reduce based programming though.

 

[North_of_Calgary]

Simple testing shows that the "instant results" are still personalized and localized. Universal search is completely dead (at least when it comes to Google). Impressive!