{"id":221851,"date":"2017-07-27T09:59:31","date_gmt":"2017-07-27T07:59:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=221851"},"modified":"2017-07-27T10:00:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-27T08:00:49","slug":"goodbye-google-instant-search","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/221851-goodbye-google-instant-search.html","title":{"rendered":"Goodbye Google Instant Search"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google is dropping its Instant Search feature which was launched in 2010 to provide users with a quicker way to find what they are looking for.<\/p>\n<p>As you type your search, Google Instant predicts what you&#8217;re looking for and shows results for your search.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you don&#8217;t see the results you want, keep typing and the results will update,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p>The possible searches that you see are based on what other people are searching for and the content of web pages indexed by Google.<\/p>\n<p>Google is now ditching the feature, as it does not provide the same experience on mobile.<\/p>\n<p>A Google spokesperson said that since 2010, more searches happen on mobile, with different input and interaction and screen constraints.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith this in mind, we have decided to remove Google Instant, so we can focus on ways to make Search even faster and more fluid on all devices,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ANVT56wlmTo\" width=\"630\" height=\"354\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/software\/221641-google-releasing-chrome-60.html\">Google releasing Chrome 60<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is dropping its Instant Search feature, which predicts what you&#8217;re looking for when you start typing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":137094,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[167,44895,13209],"class_list":["post-221851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-internet","tag-google","tag-google-instant","tag-google-search"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221851"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":221883,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221851\/revisions\/221883"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/137094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}