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An interesting register article on a google experiment to stream search results as you type, reducing the need for the search button. It is interesting to hear that Google are running at any one time 50-200 search experiments.
As for this particular experiment, my first observation, if it ever became mainstream, would be that it is a nice way for google to inflate even more their already misleading adwords search stats.
As a secondary observation, it does show that Google are looking into other ways of making the search interface more dynamic, offering a richer user experience with AJAX technology.
If it did become mainstream, would people SEO, and adword, target partial incomplete phrases just to get a look in, in markets where the main phrase is too competitive (e.g. insur instead of insurance)?
Personally I think it is a bit overkill, and could be annoying. Especially if it is unnecesarily using bandwidth (thumbnail downloads too) for intermediary results (before the full meaning of what is typed is apparent). Intermediary results could even be embarrassingly off-topic. So perhaps this is one experiment which will remain just that, an experiment.
As for this particular experiment, my first observation, if it ever became mainstream, would be that it is a nice way for google to inflate even more their already misleading adwords search stats.
As a secondary observation, it does show that Google are looking into other ways of making the search interface more dynamic, offering a richer user experience with AJAX technology.
If it did become mainstream, would people SEO, and adword, target partial incomplete phrases just to get a look in, in markets where the main phrase is too competitive (e.g. insur instead of insurance)?
Personally I think it is a bit overkill, and could be annoying. Especially if it is unnecesarily using bandwidth (thumbnail downloads too) for intermediary results (before the full meaning of what is typed is apparent). Intermediary results could even be embarrassingly off-topic. So perhaps this is one experiment which will remain just that, an experiment.
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