Many of you may have noticed that Google's "instant search" is now available - If you haven't seen it, head over to google.co.uk and start searching.. whereas before Google's suggested search options were displayed in the drop down, the search results are now displayed as you type.
It isn't entirely useful, as generally if you want to search for something, the results you get back for half the search phrase aren't often relative (think of if you started typing "how do i.." previously, you had lots of suggested searches, none of which likely to be the desired search).
That said, it does allow for a more educational search experience, essentially spreading the net wide at first and as you continue to type the the search refines and narrows in on its selected results, but along the way you may find some results of interest that you might not have found before.
Atlantic magazine has a small follow up on their CEO Schmidt's recent talk in Germany and his plan for autonomous searching.
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