Alexis Madigral weighs the pros and cons of Google Instant, which displays search results as you type. Here are "two pretty glaring downsides":
First, it is a visually intense experience, possibly even anoverwhelming one. Tech journalist John Pavlus described it as "likehaving a websearch seizure. [The:] screen explodes with noise as youtype." Second -- and this is more subtle -- I worry that Googleis driving more traffic to the most statistically probable searches.The most-trafficked ways of...
Published on September 13, 2010 10:07