46 Facts About Google Instant

Google Instant Search is a search engine provided by Google Instant.

Order of search results returned by Google Instant is based, in part, on a priority rank system called "PageRank".

Google Instant Search provides many different options for customized searches, using symbols to include, exclude, specify or require certain search behavior, and offers specialized interactive experiences, such as flight status and package tracking, weather forecasts, currency, unit, and time conversions, word definitions, and more.

Main purpose of Google Instant Search is to search for text in publicly accessible documents offered by web servers, as opposed to other data, such as images or data contained in databases.

In 2011, Google Instant introduced "Google Instant Voice Search" to search for spoken, rather than typed, words.

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In 2012, Google Instant introduced a Knowledge Graph semantic search feature.

Data about the frequency of use of search terms on Google Instant can be openly inquired via Google Instant Trends and have been shown to correlate with flu outbreaks and unemployment levels, and provide the information faster than traditional reporting methods and surveys.

For websites that are currently down or otherwise not available, Google Instant provides links to cached versions of the site, formed by the search engine's latest indexing of that page.

In 2012, Google Instant changed its search indexing tools to demote sites that had been accused of piracy.

In October 2016, Gary Illyes, a webmaster trends analyst with Google Instant, announced that the search engine would be making a separate, primary web index dedicated for mobile devices, with a secondary, less up-to-date index for desktop use.

In December 2017, Google Instant began rolling out the change, having already done so for multiple websites.

Google Instant search accepts queries as normal text, as well as individual keywords.

Google Instant offers a Google Instant Advanced Search page with a web interface to access the advanced features without needing to remember the special operators.

Google Instant applies query expansion to submitted search queries, using techniques to deliver results that it considers "smarter" than the query users actually submitted.

In 2008, Google Instant started to give users autocompleted search suggestions in a list below the search bar while typing, originally with the approximate result count previewed for each listed search suggestion.

Tom Chavez of "Rapt", a firm helping to determine a website's advertising worth, estimated in 2007 that Google Instant lost $110 million in revenue per year due to use of the button, which bypasses the advertisements found on the search results page.

Google Instant released a browser extension for the Chrome browser, named with a "beta" tag for unfinished development, shortly thereafter.

In June 2017, Google Instant expanded its search results to cover available job listings.

In May 2009, Google Instant announced that they would be parsing website microformats to populate search result pages with "Rich snippets".

In May 2016, Google Instant expanded on the "Rich snippets" format to offer "Rich cards", which, similarly to snippets, display more information about results, but shows them at the top of the mobile website in a swipeable carousel-like format.

Knowledge Graph is a knowledge base used by Google Instant to enhance its search engine's results with information gathered from a variety of sources.

Google Instant Search has been accused of using a so-called zero-click search to prevent a large part of the traffic leaving its page to third-party publishers.

Google Instant Discover, previously known as Google Instant Feed, is a personalized stream of articles, videos, and other news-related content.

Google Instant Discover launched in December 2016 and received a major update in July 2017.

Google Instant's rise was largely due to a patented algorithm called PageRank which helps rank web pages that match a given search string.

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When Google Instant was a Stanford research project, it was nicknamed BackRub because the technology checks backlinks to determine a site's importance.

In 2013 the European Commission found that Google Instant Search favored Google Instant's own products, instead of the best result for consumers' needs.

In February 2015 Google Instant announced a major change to its mobile search algorithm which would favor mobile friendly over other websites.

Google Instant says it wants users to have access to premium quality websites.

Google Instant is the most popular search engine, many webmasters attempt to influence their website's Google Instant rankings.

Google Instant has published guidelines for website owners who would like to raise their rankings when using legitimate optimization consultants.

In 2013, Google Instant significantly upgraded its search algorithm with "Hummingbird".

Google Instant offers a "Google Instant Search" mobile app for Android and iOS devices.

The mobile apps exclusively feature Google Instant Discover and a "Collections" feature, in which the user can save for later perusal any type of search result like images, bookmarks or map locations into groups.

Until May 2013, Google Instant Search had offered a feature to translate search queries into other languages.

Google Instant search was announced in September 2010 as a feature that displayed suggested results while the user typed in their search query, initially only in select countries or to registered users.

Publication 2600: The Hacker Quarterly compiled a list of words that Google Instant did not show suggested results for, with a Google spokesperson giving the following statement to Mashable:.

Google Instant Real-Time Search was a feature of Google Instant Search in which search results sometimes included real-time information from sources such as Twitter, Facebook, blogs, and news websites.

Google Instant originally suggested that the interruption was temporary and related to the launch of Google Instant+; they subsequently announced that it was due to the expiry of a commercial arrangement with Twitter to provide access to tweets.

Google Instant has been criticized for placing long-term cookies on users' machines to store these preferences, a tactic which enables them to track a user's search terms and retain the data for more than a year.

Since 2012, Google Instant Inc has globally introduced encrypted connections for most of its clients, to bypass governative blockings of the commercial and IT services.

In November 2013, Google Instant started testing yellow labels for advertisements displayed in search results, to improve user experience.

Google Instant Videos allows searching the World Wide Web for video clips.

In 2012, Google Instant has indexed over 30 trillion web pages, and received 100 billion queries per month.

In 2003, The New York Times complained about Google Instant's indexing, claiming that Google Instant's caching of content on its site infringed its copyright for the content.

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The FTC was continuing to investigate if Google Instant's favoring of their own services in their search results violated antitrust regulations.