Google Instant lands on iPhone, iPod Touch

Google Instant has been a somewhat controversial feature from the search giant. It’s drawn lots of fans and haters (and even some shrugs and “Who cares?”) since its launch. Now it is spreading its “instant searchiness” to iPhone and other iOS users, who can get instant, changing results as they type their search query.

This is what Google’s landing page now looks like:

You see that “Instant (beta) is on: Turn Off” part? That’s where you can deactivate it, if it gets on your nerves.

This may not radically rock everyone’s world — iOS users have had predictive search for a long time now via the Safari search field. And if you stick to that, this won’t make any difference to you at all. But if you navigate to Google’s main page (and don’t shut off the feature), it should auto-populate with results.

 

But there’s a wonky thing with this, and that’s the keyboard. Obviously, if you’re typing in there, the keyboard is on the screen — and it totally gets in the way of the viewable area of the results, rendering it less than optimal. Yeah, okay — maybe that’s why this is a beta?

 

What do you think of Google Instant on your iDevice? Cool tool, or irritating feature? And are you keeping it or shutting it off?

Via: The Next Web