I guess I'm in the minority, but I totally agree w/ the OP. I think instant works for me about half the time, the other half it's just confusing and messy.
I'm hoping that future iterations of instant can bring some polish to the UX, because right now it seems messy and unnecessary. If I was to continue to work as rapidly as it does now I want some more context to the results it's spitting out, like in the 1st design iteration they show....
I feel like they could have hit it out of the park with some real magic, but instead they (b)punted and put out the ugly untested beta.
This is the search design for the people who use google to get to their facebook login, and not for those who are truly searching for information.
"This is the search design for the people who use google to get to their facebook login"
Do you personally even encounter 'Google Instant'?
If I'm not using my browser's search bar, I've got my personalized iGoogle page open.
They've made changes to the vanilla Google homepage which is most likely, predominantly visited by the sort of people who use Google to get to their facebook login anyway.
I do this sometimes too, which is usually when google instant works for me, like when I've visited a page a bunch of times, but I can't be bothered to bookmark it or save the search in some other way, and I know it will come up easily in the first page of results- I just want to get to a page super fast, and it's not a url per se, but something specific I searched for and need again.
I'd say most times I search through my chrome bar, but sometimes I do end up on the google page for whatever reason.
I'm hoping that future iterations of instant can bring some polish to the UX, because right now it seems messy and unnecessary. If I was to continue to work as rapidly as it does now I want some more context to the results it's spitting out, like in the 1st design iteration they show....
I feel like they could have hit it out of the park with some real magic, but instead they (b)punted and put out the ugly untested beta.
This is the search design for the people who use google to get to their facebook login, and not for those who are truly searching for information.