Unhandled Perception

Google Instant is a new search enhancement that shows results as you type. We are pushing the limits of our technology and infrastructure to help you get better search results, faster. Our key technical insight was that people type slowly, but read quickly, typically taking 300 milliseconds between keystrokes, but only 30 milliseconds (a tenth of the time!) to glance at another part of the page. This means that you can scan a results page while you type.

What do you think?  Do you like it?

Link: http://www.google.com/instant/

Link to try Realtime Search: http://www.google.com/realtime…

Today, we’re announcing the completion of a new web indexing system called Caffeine. Caffeine provides 50 percent fresher results for web searches than our last index, and it’s the largest collection of web content we’ve offered. Whether it’s a news story, a blog or a forum post, you can now find links to relevant content much sooner after it is published than was possible ever before.

If this were a pile of paper it would grow three miles taller every second. Caffeine takes up nearly 100 million gigabytes of storage in one database and adds new information at a rate of hundreds of thousands of gigabytes per day.

Did you read that?  100 million gigabytes of storage in one database.  Wow.  That is massive.

Time to go see how this affects the Veign’s rankings and the rankings of some of my clients.  Did you see a change with your rankings?

Link: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/…

You can fix this annoyance in Chrome. Right-click on the address bar and select “Edit Search Engines…” (You can also edit the search engines via the Options menu.) You can either edit the Google option or add a new entry; I added a new entry. I set the URL field to be “{google:baseURL}search?q=%s” (without the quotes).  Now when you search for [flowers] the url is just http://www.google.com/search?q=flowers . Ah, nice clean urls in the browser bar.

Link:  http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/…