Google Instant search (works on MicroB on N900)
 

Google have just released Instant Search (details) for the US and a few countries if you're signed in. Very cool stuff.

What's also cool is that it works (slowly) on MicroB. Go to http://www.google.com/webhp?sclient=psy (probably whilst being signed in). Probably not very useful at the speed it goes, but it's nice to know Maemo is ahead of the rest - Google say it's coming to mobiles this fall.

Update: it seems like it actually works pretty well. When you press the down key the updates come (almost) immediately.

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Update: here's an image:
http://img820.imageshack.us/img820/7...0090818235.png

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it's definitely faster on a real computer, but it's pretty good on the n900 too

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I noticed the same. Neither iOS nor Android worked.

/Z

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Very fast on my OCed N900 - I would say maybe 1/2 second lag between typing and suggestions.

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For some reason it doesn't work for me. I am logged in and on a fast connection.

Edit: It works in Firefox, but not MicroB or Opera.

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It seems to matter if you are logged into your "countrys" google or "google.com". The thing is that if I by default go to "google.com" it reirects to "google.se", but if you look at the bottom there is (perhaps temporarily, for this reason, I dunno, I never noticed it before) a "go to google.com in English" button, and if you click that, you get to it also on MicroB.

I was confused on my desktop machine coz I got google instant to work on firefox but not on chrome, but it turned out to be for the same reason (one was showing google.com the other google.se even though I had typed google.com in both)

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Hmm, I am definitely on "google.com" (I'm in the US anyway), and logged in, yet I still can't get it to work. I wonder if there is a specific URL you can go to force it to turn on?

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The special URL is http://www.google.com/webhp?sclient=psy - I guess the "psy" is chort for psychic. Works for me, logged in, in the UK.

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That works in microB for OS2008/Diablo as well.
I wouldn't call it lightning fast..but, it works.

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I disabled it right away, because it is distracting. Many times I need to compare the number of hits for a specific search term vs. another. For that purpose I need the screen to "freeze" for a second or two so I can read.

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A question: When I search by typing in the URL-field, the result is shown on a mobile version of google. How to show it as if I search through google.com?

I know its completely offtopic but thanks :-)

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Hasn't this been around for ages? Sorry if I'm missing the feature but I've been using this on my PC and N900 for a few weeks at least on normal google.co.uk without being signed in...

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Works well with Firefox 1.1. No login needed, just start typing and it goes.

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I think some randomly selected people have had it for a while as a beta test, so I guess you were one of the lucky ones.

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This does not work for me, logged in, in the US.

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No luck here either. (Logged in the US.) Here too I prefer Google Desktop version link over the mobile version.

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Type about:config on the address bar, then search for keyword.URL. I think that's the right one. I think there was a wiki article about MicroB somewhere that mentioned this.

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