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Google Instant Announced
GCPSoft writes with this quote from a Google announcement:
"Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type."
Just go to the Google homepage, wait five years for the fade in, click "Settings" -> "Search Settings"
Find the setting for "Google Instant" (hint, bottom of preferences list), select "Do not use Google Instant" and press Save.
Now if there was some easy way to disable the horrible, over-scripted image result page layout I'd be a happy camper!
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Seriously? It's one of the first questions answered in the FAQ.
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Dropping IE6 is a good thing. It's hideous and not just aesthetically, but also from a security and standard support/compliance standpoint. I'm not advocating alienating all Internet Explorer users altogether (even though I quite dislike it), but dropping IE6 specifically is a *good* thing to do. Yeah some companies still force it on their users, shame on them (the companies).
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# The search term violates our autocomplete policies. We aim to provide you with relevant search queries, but we exclude a narrow class of search queries related to pornography, violence, and hate speech.
Useless feature without porn.
Repeat that while logged in, so I can damage your karma the same way you damaged mine.
Do you mean by making you look like an idiot so people modded you down? Or are you presuming they moderated your post?
And there's no way to turn-off the annoying "popup" images that Google now uses during Image searches.
At the bottom of the image search page is a link "Switch to basic version". You're on Slashdot, figure it out from there.
For those of you complaining about this - or other - features that seem to slow down your machine: you can always use the search bar in whatever major browsing you're using.
If you use Google as your homepage there are options to disable at least this feature. However, I'm one of those crazies that just opens up the previous sessions windows, always mindful to close out potentially shocking or embarrassing tabs.
YMMV.
If in doubt, fix the settings in your account.
I read TFA and all I got was this lousy cookie
But you can search before the fade in. The cursor is already in the box. Just type and hit enter.
The whole point of the fade in is to make sure there's no garbage coming between you and Google's main objective, search.
in the panel on the left.
Select "more search tools" and then select "Fewer shopping sites"
General Relativity: Space-time tells matter where to go; Matter tells space-time what shape to be.
The C64 didn't use an acoustically-coupled modem; it used a 300baud handset replacement that plugged into a port on the computer and connected directly to the base of a desk or wall phone.</pedant>
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This "constant updating of results as you type" makes my Hotel dialup connection run even MORE slowly than it did before.
Even on high-speed DSL, it slows things down. Why can't these web developers get into their heads that not everyone has a 1 megabit pipe? (Or if it is available, don't want to spend ~$60/month to get it.) I remember one of the things taught developed in the 90s and early 2000s was to "optimize" their pages to use as few kilobytes as possible - like squeezing GIFs down from 50 to 10KB. Apparently that paradigm got thrown out the window.
The paradigm of catering to the slowest and oldest has been replaced by pioneering new ground while at the same time including easy ways to turn off the extra features. If you would calm down for five seconds maybe you would see the link "Instant Search is On" with a dropdown menu to turn it off.
Reminds me of that story about the retired englishmen doing his crosswords and then looking up on google '*non-domesticated* Asian *donkey*' (you can do the math replacing the ** words by equivalents)
Ah yes... feral asian equidae.
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