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Nov

9

2010

Google Instant Preview now available on search results

by Mikka Burrell
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Just days ago, it was announced that Google Instant would be made available on all Android 2.2 devices. Now, Google is making searching the internet even faster with Google Instant Preview.

If you see a magnifying glass icon next to your Google results, you can click on the magnifying glass to see a preview of the page before entering it.

Google told the New York Times that it will keep images of “a few billion popular web pages” cached on its servers, but it will generate previews for any site in “less than one-tenth of a second.” Also, testing showed that Instant Preview users would be “5% more likely to be satisfied with the results they click.”

What do you think? Is Instant Preview necessary in some cases or will it mostly be unused the next time you Google something? Sound off in the comments!

[via lifehacker]

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Comments

  • James

    Hmmm, I will have to try this on my Droid right now, thanks!

  • http://twitter.com/corbrwn corinthia br

    Good job. use of google cached pages fully utilized.