Google Instant

[Jez]

Woo! Google instant search shaved a third of a second off my search time
this morning! I haven't decided what I will do with my spare 3rd of a
second. Do you think I could possible complete a nasal plucking task in
that time? Too many choices.

Seriously, what are everyone's takes on instant? It's OK and everything
but it is pretty worthless IMO. Pretty much google shaking its arse
feathers in a display before continuing to stick it to Bing.

Some people are saying on WMW that it's another nail in SEO's coffin.

Thoughts anyone?

Jez.

[John Bokma]

Post by Jez
Woo! Google instant search shaved a third of a second off my search
time this morning! I haven't decided what I will do with my spare 3rd
of a second. Do you think I could possible complete a nasal plucking
task in that time? Too many choices.
Seriously, what are everyone's takes on instant? It's OK and
everything but it is pretty worthless IMO. Pretty much google shaking
its arse feathers in a display before continuing to stick it to Bing.
Some people are saying on WMW that it's another nail in SEO's coffin.

Why?

[Jez]

Post by Jez
Woo! Google instant search shaved a third of a second off my search
time this morning! I haven't decided what I will do with my spare 3rd
of a second. Do you think I could possible complete a nasal plucking
task in that time? Too many choices.
Seriously, what are everyone's takes on instant? It's OK and
everything but it is pretty worthless IMO. Pretty much google shaking
its arse feathers in a display before continuing to stick it to Bing.
Some people are saying on WMW that it's another nail in SEO's coffin.

Why?

This is a quote from Mr Cutts:

Q: Will Google Instant change search engine optimization?
A: I think over time it might. The search results will remain the same
for a query, but it’s possible that people will learn to search
differently over time. For example, I was recently researching a
congressperson. With Google Instant, it was more visible to me that this
congressperson had proposed an energy plan, so I refined my search to
learn more, and quickly found myself reading a post on the
congressperson’s blog that had been on page 2 of the search results.

A lot of people are complaining about drastic traffic drops since it
went live. I don't know if it's because google is bypassing some of the
longtail queries with instant or not.

I know that my own traffic was already down before instant was live and
it being live does not seem to have affected it further. So far...

[John Bokma]

Post by Jez

Post by Jez
Woo! Google instant search shaved a third of a second off my search
time this morning! I haven't decided what I will do with my spare 3rd
of a second. Do you think I could possible complete a nasal plucking
task in that time? Too many choices.
Seriously, what are everyone's takes on instant? It's OK and
everything but it is pretty worthless IMO. Pretty much google shaking
its arse feathers in a display before continuing to stick it to Bing.
Some people are saying on WMW that it's another nail in SEO's coffin.

Why?

Q: Will Google Instant change search engine optimization?
A: I think over time it might. The search results will remain the same
for a query, but it’s possible that people will learn to search
differently over time. For example, I was recently researching a
congressperson. With Google Instant, it was more visible to me that
this congressperson had proposed an energy plan, so I refined my
search to learn more, and quickly found myself reading a post on the
congressperson’s blog that had been on page 2 of the search results.
A lot of people are complaining about drastic traffic drops since it
went live. I don't know if it's because google is bypassing some of
the longtail queries with instant or not.
I know that my own traffic was already down before instant was live
and it being live does not seem to have affected it further. So far...

Thanks for the clarification. I still haven't installed any stats
program on my server (O_o), so no idea how my site is doing.