Google promised to its mobile users in September, when it launched the service of ‘Google Instant’ for computer users that it will start offering Google Instant on some mobiles too. Quite early, on Thursday, 4th November, Google announced that it has launched Google Instant on some Android devices and iPhones. Google Instant is another exciting feature of Google Inc. It displays results to a user while he is typing, rather than waiting for the user to hit the search button.But some people say that it is not necessary that this service saves time for mobile users just like it does for computer users. They believe it's not quite as useful on phones because of the small size of screens in mobiles. For example, while typing through Instant search on an iPhone, the keyboard already covers half the screen already and now the new three lines of predicted suggestions under the search bar take up additional screen real estate. That only leaves enough space to display three lines of text for search results. In some cases, even those three lines are also a part of some sponsored advertisement.
Google has declared this service as only the Beta version, as of now. Specifically Android 2.2 and iPhones and iPods running iOS 4 should see the option to turn Instant on when they visit Google.com, not all mobiles.
Steve Kanefsky, a software engineer with Google, wrote in a blog post in these words: "Google Instant for mobile works best on 3G and WiFi networks, but since the quality of any wireless connection can fluctuate, we've made it easy to enable or disable Google Instant without ever leaving the page."
When Google initially rolled out Instant for computer users it was subjected to mixed reviews. As hoped, some people find it makes searching easier and faster. But not all, others find it to be distracting as search results flash on the page. But the better part is that like computer users can shut off Instant anytime, so can the users using the mobile version.
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