
You can click to travel down roads and through cities, scanning for distinguishable landmarks or language. The premise is simple: As you stare at a computer or phone, you’re plopped down somewhere in the world in Google Street View and must guess, as quickly as you can, exactly where you are. Rainbolt has become the face of a fast-growing community of geography fanatics who play a game called GeoGuessr. Rainbolt said, correctly pinpointing the country.

Lake Tahoe? Siberia? “It looks like we’re going to be in Switzerland here, unless we’re in Japan. “This is going to be south Philippines, somewhere on this road down here,” Trevor Rainbolt said instantly, clicking on a location on a map of the world that was less than 11 miles from the spot.Ī road winding through woods was up next. It could have been anywhere from Tasmania to Texas. Hat tip to for pinging us on this change.An unremarkable stretch of highway and trees, as seen on Google Maps’ Street View, appeared on the screen. The search results will not load any result pages without clicking on a search suggestion or clicking enter.Īgain, this change is to make search “more fluid on all devices” Google says. Now as you type, you will only see search suggestions and then be able to click on those suggestions to see the results. With 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. Since then, many more of our searches happen on mobile, with very different input and interaction and screen constraints. We launched Google Instant back in 2010 with the goal to provide users with the information they need as quickly as possible, even as they typed their searches on desktop devices. A Google spokesperson told Search Engine Land: Now with the changes in how searchers use mobile - and over 50% of all Google searches being on mobile - Google decided to do away with this feature. Mayer called this change a “fundamental shift in search” and the news was covered across all major media when it launched.

Google Instant launched in 2010 under the leadership of Marissa Mayer. After launching Google Instant - Google’s method of showing search results as you type them - several years ago, Google has removed the feature from search effective today.
