Google Instant cannot be turned off..

Posted by n_are_q on Thursday May 05, 2011 @10:10PM
from the self-post dept.

I've disabled it in preferences probably at least 4 times now, last time being just yesterday. Today I go to search for something, and sure enough it's back again. Check preferences - it's back on. Is anyone else as incredibly annoyed by this as I am?

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Re:Google Instant cannot be turned off.. by zaidf on Thursday May 05, 2011 @11:17PM (#2519871)

So stupidly annoying. I am still appalled that google instant was good nuff to stick around.

I find it still breaking my back button, distracting my thought process among other things. And like you said, I don't know why it keeps getting enabled even though I could swear I'd disabled it.

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Re:Google Instant cannot be turned off.. by noisysquid on Thursday May 05, 2011 @10:21PM (#2519758)

Well if you aren't using google search for images or anything you could use this instead: https://encrypted.google.com/

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Re:Google Instant cannot be turned off.. by nametoremember on Friday May 06, 2011 @12:15PM (#2521370)

Google Instant is so annoying. I sometimes rephrase my search when looking at the words in the current search results. Now the current search results disappear when I am retyping.

I am not sure if that makes sense but Google Instant breaks the way I search.

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Re:Google Instant cannot be turned off.. by mc on Friday May 06, 2011 @02:55AM (#2520222)

Workaround is to start an experiment. http://www.google.com/experimental/

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Re:Google Instant cannot be turned off.. by adr_ on Thursday May 05, 2011 @10:52PM (#2519828)

Is this a security concern or a usability annoyance?

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Re:Google Instant cannot be turned off.. by n_are_q on Thursday May 05, 2011 @10:55PM (#2519835)

Google instant is where google shows you search results as you type, going beyond auto completing your query. Some people like myself find that annoying, and it's doubly annoying that google actually resets your preferences back to what IT thinks is better for YOU.

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