Wednesday, September 8, 2010

Google Instant Will Save 350 Million Hours Of User Time Per Year

Productivity is hard to measure, but Google engineer Ben Gomes points out that Google serves up billions of queries every day, and that the average query length is 20 characters and the average time for a user to pick a result takes 15 seconds.

Google’s latest feature launch is all about speeding up this process.

“Google Instant will save 350 million hours of user time, over a year,” says Google VP Marissa Mayer. basing her estimate on a figure of each instant search saving two to five seconds of user time, in places where Google Instant is rolled out.

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