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How Google Instant knows what you want

15 September 2010

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WILL Google soon be foretelling your every desire? That’s the future heralded by the company’s new search tool Google Instant, which delivers results even before you’ve finished typing a query.

Google Instant, which launched last week, takes auto-complete to a new level: as you type into Google’s search field, a list of results appears for the query Google thinks you want to make – in other words, for the matching search that is most popular or statistically likely. Google’s servers manage the increased load this requires by…

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