As far as speeding up searches – it won’t – in face, it will slow searches down.

The reason for this is simple (and the main reason I have turned it off). Then you start typing, both the box you are typing into and the associated buttons MOVE.

This is incredibly disorientating – whoever thought up the UI must hae ben drunk at th time.

I live in an area with only 1 Mb broadband and already I’ve had Google inform me the connection was too slow for instants and that I’d have to press ‘Enter’ as previously. I must say though, after being unsure if I liked the new facility, I sure missed it when it went missing.

Finally, all those on limited data broadband contracts might find their allocation eaten up far more quickly than previously – and will all this data provision now force the providers to cap everybody’s allocation rather than offer unlimited downloads?

It’s good, but I’m not sure the current infrastructure can support it.

@John, I agree with you, there’s no party for you if you use Chrome, like me. However, I do often use the actual search results page quite often for my second search.

@Everyone, I saw this list of now-hilarious search queries with Google instant and it’s pretty good!