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 hope there's a way to turn this off

[iONiUM]

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."

Awesome Bar?

[morari]

So it's going to be like the annoying Awesome Bar that was implemented in Firefox?

Re:I hope there's a way to turn this off

[Anonymous Coward]

You turn it off by using firefox search bar.
In terms of usability, of a single text field and submit button, it's down hill from now on.

Re:Features

[Shikaku]

Just use links and gvim and never look back. Hell throw away the whole window manager and just stick with vim instead. It's not like you need those extra UI elements taking up your precious CPU cycles, right?

Re:Not good ideas, tho

[cgenman]

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.

Technically true

[The_mad_linguist]

" 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.

Re:Features

[Interoperable]

Or reasonable tab overflow handling.

Re:I hope there's a way to turn this off

[m50d]

And then they shift the option in every release, until people get fed up of turning it off. And then they make it autoupdate to on. No, if something nefarious is on by default that's enough of a problem that we should call them on it.