San Francisco — Last month, Google Instant, a novel feature that delivers search results in real-time as you type was launched on mobile in Beta, which was only for U.S. Today, the search engine titan Google announced that its Google Instant for Mobile (iOS and Android-based devices) is now available in 28 languages and in 40 countries worldwide, whereas the Beta only worked with English.
Announcing the move in a blog post, the company said that the Google Instant feature, which guesses the words as you type that can save a lot of time, will now be available in 28 languages across 40 countries globally. This was earlier introduced in the desktop browsers which can also be accessed from address bar in Google Chrome Browser.
Google explained: “If you own an Android 2.2+ or iOS4 device, just go to google.com in your mobile browser and you will be redirected to your local domain. Then, tap the Google Instant link beneath the search box to enable it.” You will need to be connected through a Wi-Fi connection to truly enjoy the fast action benefits, but even a decent HSDPA connection will probably work fine.
However, one of the few disadvantages of activating the feature on mobile web browsers is that due to the limited screen space, users will have to scroll down a bit in order to view the search results as the search suggestions cover more than half of the screen.
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This week, Google held a special Chrome Event, which was abuzz with the main topic–that was the unveiling of the long-awaited Chrome OS. However, the company also displayed some things they are doing with the Chrome browser first, and one of those was Google Instant from the Omnibox.
The presentation was amazingly fascinating, it not only returned search results as its name indicated, it actually loaded sites simultaneously in the browser, as you type. They displayed the feature by typing an “E” and automatically getting ESPN, a “T” and getting Twitter, etc. This is decided upon by your browsing habits. Presumably if you go to esquire.com more than you go to espn.com, that would come up for “E” instead.
The company did not specify any time frame as to when this will be available in Chrome, but it should be relatively soon. Some of the countries in which the feature will be available are Canada, India, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Norway.
View this video to know more about Google Instant: