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Google Give Searchers 'Instant Previews' of Result Pages

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the no-time-to-waste dept.

First pressing 'Enter' was to much work... now actually clicking on the links and visiting the sites is to much, too... Google is testing instant previews, where you can see a miniature rendered view of the landing page without requiring you to click through and back-arrow.

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  1. It's automation, not laziness! by sco08y · · Score: 5, Interesting

    "First, pressing Enter was too much work..."

    No. Pressing Enter was pointless, and clicking through to the page was pointless. Obviously, if I'm taking the trouble to go to a search engine and type in words, I want to search for them. It's idiotic to have to tell the machine that. Likewise, I don't care about the links, I want the page itself, so it makes sense to pull it up right away.

    The whole point of having a machine is to automate repetitive tasks, and that's what Google is doing here.