The change, called " Google Instant," is the closest the 12-year-old company has come yet to realizing its founders' ambition to build a search engine that reads its users' minds.

Google Instant is designed for many modern Web browsers, including the most recent versions of Google’s Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, and Apple’s Safari.

Google's Instant Search is already enabled by default at the Google search page, but because it depends on code that runs on the user's machine, it doesn't work on every browser.

On Wednesday, Google introduced Google Instant, which predicts Internet search queries and shows results as soon as someone begins to type, adjusting the results as each successive letter is typed.

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For one thing, he said, Google Instant is killing off the long tail because “people are finding what they want faster.” What’s more, Friesen said, you have to keep in mind that Google Instant is “a ...

Google Instant is rolling out today in the United States, and works in Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer 8 and Safari. More information is available at Google’s Website, where users can try the ...

Google Instant technology offers "search-before-you-type," according to Marissa Mayer, vice president of search products and user experience for Google, in a blog post on Google's Web site.

Bing. Google says its new search technology will shave between two and five seconds off the time required for a typical search. As a result, Instant should drive up the total number of searches.

Google is calling the service a beta. People with phones running Android 2.2 and iPhones and iPod touches running iOS 4 should see the option to turn Instant on when they visit Google.com.

Google Instant, the company's implementation of real-time Web search results as you type, first debuted in beta form in the U.S. last month, for iOS 4.0 devices like iPhone and iPod Touch and for ...