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Google Preps Instant Search For Chrome 8
An anonymous reader writes "Google is apparently playing with a nifty integration of instant search inside of its Chrome browser. Typing in the URL bar will automatically bring up a search page, while URLs apparently can be completed much faster as well. It seems as if Google isn't running out of ideas for its browser anytime soon."
I would be worried, as I use Chrome at work, about searching for "po"..."st office". I mean, that term among many others.
There's always increased traffic usage, though I doubt that affects work much. I wonder also if they'll push this on the page where you have to choose a search engine (when you install it). "If you use google, you get this feature too."
So it's going to be like the annoying Awesome Bar that was implemented in Firefox?
"He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing." --Paul Atreides, Dune
bad excuses to not use chome (I guess I will have to one day...)
Sounds like a not too subtle excuse to send every URL you type back to your targeted advertising file at Google. Were there a separate search box, I'd be less cynical, but one has to wonder if this was always their vision for what the browser bar should do.
Hasn't this already been done in Opera and other browsers? How is this innovative?
I call it 'The Aristocrats'
I love Chrome, and don't miss Firefox at all (and especially don't miss my system being brought to its knees by the constant memory leaks that seemingly can't be fixed), but I wish they would focus less on whiz-bang features, and focus more on filling in the gaps in the core features. Things like "Print Preview" and "Properties" when you right-click an image come to mind.
Sometimes it's best to just let stupid people be stupid.
... If I'm wrong, but doesn't Chrome and most other browsers do this already. I've used it several time sin the past few minutes. I skimmed TFA but I didn't see anything new except that page turn button.
Chrome 8? I'm still on Chromium 5 apparently, and it's from this year!
I suppose it is "nifty" for folks that actually like the instant search feature, but I've been happily avoiding it by doing my searches through the URL bar in Chrome. Guess they'll take that option away, too? Oh well, I'm not going to nerd-rage about it like some of the posts I've seen on Slashdot. It's just a minor annoyance to me but I'll likely still use Chrome to browse and Google to search. I really like Chrome, mainly because it's one of the few browsers that's lightning fast when I have lots of tabs with Flash heavy content open. That's probably only because of my aging hardware, and it's not like Firefox is really sluggish on my system, just noticeably slower.
Plus Chrome has other neat features, like when I type the URL of a site I have searched before, you can search that site again by pressing tab, so I don't need to have a bunch of different search boxes for different sites like I do in Firefox. Anyway, I guess I'll reserve my judgement until it's actually implemented, maybe they'll do it in a way that isn't too irksome or distracting.
"To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit." -Stephen Hawking
Hey! Did you know if you type in your root password into the search bar, it can list your computer in the search results?
It works on Slashdot too... see, here's mine: ********
/ accidentally his password in the google search bar the other day
// it's different now
Like firefox already does?
"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. We have a protractor."
I often use the search bar at the top as a temporary writing area for transient things, like to craft an URL which I would then paste into something else, or to write out an equation that I happen to see (Sometimes I use the browser to review notes)
It wouldn't be very fun if the page I was looking at suddenly vanished to be replaced by a search page, just because I was trying to crystallize my thoughts for a second. Of course I really should be using a separate editor for transient notes but it seems so convenient this way..
riddle me this, if theyre already doing search suggestions (and thus sending letter by letter updates to google), what additional benefit does it provide Google to actually run the query?
Okay, my Chrome pet peeve here.
Let's say you open a bunch of background tabs while reading a page. One of the tabs doesn't load for whatever reason, when it times out, instead of putting the attempted URL in the address bar it leaves some kind of about:blank internal page that tells you what happened. That's great, thanks for the info, now click refresh. Nope, the page is gone forever. Go back to the first page and hunt through the links comparing them against the loaded tabs and hopefully you find the one you wanted.
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We're working on it! Coming soon*
* soon is between 4 and 7 years.
I love new features! I love new features with an off switch even more!
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FYI: If you copy the entire URL from the URL bar you get the http:/// added back on.
Firefox doesn't phone home the urls to a server; it just searches your local browser history.
Today, my boss called me into his office to show me the web site of a potential business partner. When he began to type 'virginia' into google, it auto-completed his search with his recent search for 'virgin boy assholes'. I have to go on business trip with him tomorrow. I'm a young guy. FML
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I find it useful for refining results.
[Dominant concept] [sub concept 1] [sub concept 2] [refining concept 1] [refining concept 2] [additional info 1] [additional info 2]
Start typing. If you don't see what you're looking for, keep typing. Add terms and refinements. Keep going. Running 4 separate searches to find what you're looking for is slow. Seeing how you need to change your query to shape your results in realtime can be helpful.
The ______ Agenda
" It seems as if Google isn't running out of ideas for its browser anytime soon"...
That's true, but they are running out of good ideas.
At least Google isn't as bad as Sun.
One day I was on Java 1.4, and then next thing you know, POOF, I'm on Java 5!
There's no -1 for "I don't get it."
I could care less about searches.. but because chrome uses the least real estate, it is nice on my netbook... but IT IS HORRIBLE with system resources... I have to restart chrome at least three times a day to clean out the memory. And I only average 5-6 tabs being open. That is really sad for a browser.. that is worse than FF.. and if I could get FF to use less real estate as well, I would just use it and ditch chrome.
Start typing. If you don't see what you're looking for, keep typing. Add terms and refinements.
Sounds like a good idea, but you can't trust it.
I forget where I saw it, probably here on slashdot. Trying searching for the book the "wisdom of whores" - the instant search stuff won't complete at all - it is as if there are no hits. Do a "real" search for wisdom of whores and you get a bunch of hits - the first is the author's blog and the second is the amazon page for the book.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Yes. They have an adult filter on certain keywords. Enter one of those keywords, and you have to actually hit the enter key. This is pretty clear while you're typing, though, as all entries disappear and "press enter to search" comes up. So it isn't any slower than the traditional way where you have to hit enter for each search.
Do note that you can find the book if you type in "Wisdom of Elizabeth Pisani" without hitting enter, as Elizabeth is the author. So it's more of a keyword search than a content block. That may seem like splitting hairs, but if you just remember certain bits of information, you don't have to hit enter to see potentially sensitive results. I.E. when there are results, you can trust them to be as exhaustive as they would be if you hit enter.
The ______ Agenda
Yes. They have an adult filter on certain keywords. Enter one of those keywords, and you have to actually hit the enter key. This is pretty clear while you're typing, though, as all entries disappear and "press enter to search" comes up. So it isn't any slower than the traditional way where you have to hit enter for each search.
For me, the "press enter to search" fades in after a few seconds. If you start backspacing before then you might miss it. Plus, its not obvious what's going on - if it (immediately) said "press enter to search without adult filter" or "completion stopped by SafetySearch" or even provided a way to turn off the filter like they do in other parts of google with the &safe=off URL parameter or a cookie for those who "log in" then I'd be less critical.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
I really wish they would focus on having the search bar offer good options from the browsing history and not from Google searches. Firefox's awsomebar is the last advantage Firefox has over Chrome, IMO. In FF I can easily get back to pages I use often or search my bookmarks through the address bar and the results are instantaneous while on Chrome searching the history is slow and half of the result are Google suggest results which are just not useful.
Even Slashdot users don't know about CyberSearch? https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/7931/ or http://cybernetnews.com/cybersearch/ . This has been public at AMO since June 2008 and at their site earlier than that.... Granted, this one really ought to be built into Firefox (like Tree Style Tab) so more know about it, since it's not just a niche use.
One particularly handy tip you might miss about the add-on: type "^" and then your search term to instantly search the site already loaded in the same tab (no need to define a keyword).
They should be working on fixing the Google Update malware so that updates are only performed manually on user request.
GM Called. They want their searches back.
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No, but it wants to be! Oh, hold on, that's something else.
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