[btilly]

My opinion is that this is a challenge to Microsoft. "So you want to compete in search, well match this! See whether your server infrastructure can hold up!"

Having used the feature for a while, what I've found is that I basically don't finish typing. I just stop when I have good enough results. At first I found it annoying, but after I got used to it I found it very nice. Now I find myself annoyed that it isn't built into chrome's search bar.

[Brashman]

The fact that it's not built into Chrome's search bar means that I will never see it after the 5 minutes I just spent playing with it. I've been searching from my browser, whether Chrome or Firefox, for a long time now.

[nkohari]

It's just an asynchronous load of data, so I don't see why Chrome couldn't leverage it as well. Might lead to some interesting UI, actually.

[btilly]

How long do you think it will be until there are plugins giving you the same feature in Firefox and Chrome?

[phjohnst]

Marissa Mayer apparently said: "Sometime in the next few months this is something that will be activated in the browsers"

via: http://techcrunch.com/2010/09/08/google-instant-chrome/

[contextfree]

Someone actually built a Bing-based instant search a while back: http://www.istartedsomething.com/livesearch/

It's not nearly as responsive, dunno to what extent that's imposed by MSFT's server infrastructure though.

[keegangrayson]

But it doesn't predict what you are most likely going to search for...