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Will Google take the million dollar challenge?!

HumanityBlues

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New "Instant Search" on google. I just noticed this today while googling. The always reputable huffingtonpost labeled it as "Radical New Search Feature Makes Google 'Psychic'".

I don't know what kind of algorithms google uses, but the whole thing just creeps me out. Google is able to predict with great accuracy what I will write in as my search terms usually only a few words in. The robots will devour us all!:jaw-dropp
 
I dunno. I had to get to the v in milf midget videos before the auto-fill kicked in. Wait . . .
 
Doing a double blind test on it could be an issue if neither Google nor the person typing were allowed to know what was being typed.....
 
HumanityBlues said:
I don't know what kind of algorithms google uses, but the whole thing just creeps me out. Google is able to predict with great accuracy what I will write in as my search terms usually only a few words in.
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It's worth bearing in mind that that is nothing at all to do with Google Instant. The prediction of search terms has been around for quite a while now. The only new feature here is that it will now automatically perform a search on the top ranked one, and perform new searches as that changes.

I'm also rather skeptical of their claims of how much time will be saved. 60-90 seconds to type a search string? Really? Given that there's a character limit, are people trying to type by poking the keyboard with a stick from another room or something? And how exactly have they measured this anyway?

Also, it doesn't work. The Instant page claims it's available for .co.uk people if they're signed into a Google account, but it's simply not there.
 
I was amazed and surprised too and then I realized that yahoo has had auto-guess for years. The only difference is google searches as you type, whereas yahoo waits for you to make a selection and then searches.
 
HumanityBlues said:
I don't know what kind of algorithms google uses, but the whole thing just creeps me out. Google is able to predict with great accuracy what I will write in as my search terms usually only a few words in. The robots will devour us all!:jaw-dropp
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"As it turns out, indexing essentially every phrase every human might type is completely doable." <-- Quite an algorithm! :)


Any time a new one is typed, add it to the list. Note they also correct misspellings, too, when offering you a choice. While they no doubt use spelling correction algorithms, it's not beyond the possibility that they just index every misspelling, too, indexing it to the correct spelling.
 
This will never work on me, since I'm brand new. Everything I do is always brand new. I'm on the premise of reality. I walk a real road.
 
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