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The ABC's of Google Instant Search

Today, Google launched Google Instant, the first major update in 12 years to their search interface.  As many articles on the Internet will explain to you today...this feature is pretty damn cool.  Google has always wanted to create a search engine that essentially could read your mind.  So, in addition to popping results up on the screen instantly, they've added a new predictive type feature that tries to guess what you are looking for and displays it in grey (in addition to the drop down that they've always provided).  Although it remains to be seen if Google is truly customizing their results to individual users, I did a quick ABC test to see what my results would be.  I must admit, it did seem pretty customized to my own personal searches.

So, below you will find my results.  These are the suggested sites that Google Instant provided me after typing just one letter.  I invite you to share your results.

A - Amazon.com
B - Best Buy
C - Craigslist
D - Dictionary
E - Ebay
F - Facebook
G - Gmail
H - Hotmail
I - Ikea
J - James Avery
K - Kroger
L - Lowes
M - MySpace
N - Netflix
O - Office Depot
P - Pandora
Q - Quotes (http://www.brainyquote.com/ was the site listed)
R - Realtor
S - Skype
T - Target
U - UPS
V - Verizon
W - WalMart
X - Xbox
Y - Yahoo!
Z - Zappos

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