Google Serving 1,000,000,000 People Per Week

[JMcEntegart]

Google yesterday launched Google Instant, a feature that gives you immediate search results as you're typing your query. However, embedded in that announcement was another little announcement: Google is now serving one billion people per week.

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[webbwbb]

I have tried it but I didn't it was even more magical than an Apple product. I must have missed the 10 hours, 59 minutes, and 59 seconds I gained for every second I was searching. Man I love Google.

 

[Guest]

google instant is just epic. so mind blowing. otherwordly feature id say

 

[kriswitak]

The Fact that I don't have to rephrase my search and re-click in the box after my search doesn't return what I am looking for is worth it alone. I think this is where that time lost comes from. If you don't get what you want, just backspace and retype in literally half the time. You don't have to move your other hand to the mouse to get another result. I know a lot of people are knocking it b/c they don't like it, but it's a nice feature to have, and I'm glad they have developed it.

 

[stingstang]

Oh come on. It's not a billion different people a week. It's 200 million people 5 times a week.

 

[bobusboy]

I stopped using google a long time a go

 

[xerroz]

[citation][nom]greghome[/nom]At least it's better than bing[/citation]
trust me, its not


a billion people? unlikely, its prob 145 millionjavascript:%20void(0); people a day

 

[Pyroflea]

[citation][nom]xerroz[/nom]trust me, its nota billion people? unlikely, its prob 145 million people a day[/citation]

It's not individuals obviously, just 1,000,000,000 search queries I'd assume. *Shrugs*

 

[czar1020]

"Meyer said yesterday that the new feature will save users 11 hours per second, and Brin thinks that people will search more, because they have more time."

Did i miss something? 11 hours per second?

 

[cronik93]

That "Instant search" thing really pissed me off last night.

Its so damn useless.

 

[dapneym]

I'm actually rather liking Instant Search when I've used it. The results come quick, and they've generally been what I'd like. I don't really care about hitting the search button since it gets me to where I would have gone anyway.

[citation][nom]czar1020[/nom]"Meyer said yesterday that the new feature will save users 11 hours per second, and Brin thinks that people will search more, because they have more time." Did i miss something? 11 hours per second?[/citation]

By 11 hours per second he meant that when you combine all the time saved (they estimate 3-5 seconds per search) that every second users performing searches would, on the whole, save 11 hours.

 

[NeeKo]

You got it right about the savings dapneym, they clarified yesterday. Its not so really hard to think it instead of coming to bitch in the comments.

 

[sabot00]

[citation][nom]czar1020[/nom]"Meyer said yesterday that the new feature will save users 11 hours per second, and Brin thinks that people will search more, because they have more time." Did i miss something? 11 hours per second?[/citation]
Google's saying that every search added up will save 11 hours per second.
Even if you only save say 0.001 seconds per second all the queries added up "per second" would be a lot.

 

[leo2kp]

[citation][nom]czar1020[/nom]"Meyer said yesterday that the new feature will save users 11 hours per second, and Brin thinks that people will search more, because they have more time." Did i miss something? 11 hours per second?[/citation]


Total time saved for each user adds up to 11 hours per second.

 

[Cyex]

Overall I like it, but when I have typed half a word (and the other half shows in grey), it would be good if the END key would go to the end of that word, turning the grey characters to black. But instead the END key just goes to the end of the black letters you've been typing.

 

[jefe323]

i tried using instant with suggestions at the same time and they dont work together.

i'll stick to suggestions for now, i like it better...

 

[JOSHSKORN]

I seriously hope there's a script to disable Google Instant. I can press the key just fine, thank you. This is just annoying. Otherwise, I'm going to start using Bing or go back to Yahoo!.

 

[screechy]

I would love to know how they figured 1 billion PEOPLE a week. This sounds unreasonable. I don't eve think 1/6 of the world have Internet.

 

[dalauder]

[citation][nom]xerroz[/nom]trust me, its nota billion people? unlikely, its prob 145 millionjavascript:%20void(0); people a day[/citation]
You do realize that 145 million a day equals 1 billion a week, right? Because the title of the article says 1,000,000,000 Per Week.

 

[randomizer]

Google poached the Instant Search idea anyway.

http://www.istartedsomething.com/livesearch

 

[rzilla91]

11 hours per second? Nice.

 

[TheGreatGrapeApe]

I like it, but I would still prefer having google host a black google without me having to log in every time (don't want to log-in at work) that's a bit more important to me.

 

[triplebug]

Google has no life.

 

[back_by_demand]

OK, im trying to work out the maths on this.
Obviously they don't mean 11 hours per second for each user, otherwise if I spend 10 seconds typing a search I will go back in time to the middle of last week.
So they must mean 11 hours per second for it's combined user base.

There are 39600 seconds in 11 hours
There are 604800 seconds in a week
There are a billion users per week
So 1000000000 / 604800 = 1653 searches per second
1653 / 604800 = Huh? WTF?
So each individual user saves over 6 minutes per second?

I'm calling shennanigans

 

[ofer]

is not a billion searches a week but a billion sessions a week which sum up to a much bigger number of searches...