* Posts by Ian Geek

2 publicly visible posts • joined 20 Jan 2010

Google Instant sinks raft of search controls

Ian Geek
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One other slight problem...

It sometimes makes results significantly worse.

More specifically, the "intelligent" prediction routine has a fairly significant flaw from a useful Search (and SEO) point of view, in that hitting 'space' after a keyword reloads the results based on what it considers the most popular *following* word would be, rather than the keywords you've already entered. While this may be intended to save time, it causes problems if you're not sure on the best keywords to use for a result, and trying to refine them as you go.

For example, I needed to find the kanji for the word "japanese" the other day and found myself staring puzzled at pages of results for "japanese knotweed", having not twigged I'd hit space on autopilot. Lost me a good 5 seconds there, I can tell you..

Apple's iPad - the tablet with the data center soul

Ian Geek

So...

...this would basically be an oversized iPod Touch you're talking about?