I was sitting in the pub the other night having a quiet drink with a very good friend of mine who expressed her concerns about Google Instant Search, she was telling me how much she disliked the way everything changed as you typed a query into the search box, now this lady is just a normal computer user and not a complete and utter geek (yes I do have none geeky friends).

Well to cut a long story short the conversation ended with the plea “How do I get rid of it?” and I got to thinking many others may want to do the same, hence this article….

so How Do I Turn Off Google Instant Search?

Well the short answer is very easily.

Actually there are 2 ways:

1. You can turn off Google Instant Search by clicking the link Instant is on next to the search box on any search results page.
2. Or by visiting your Preferences and scrolling down to the bottom of the page and clicking
   Do not use Google Instant.

When researching the subject I discovered this excellent video from Lifehacker which goes though the process.

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Like many affiliates I enjoy a love hate relationship with Google, and during the bad times I simply see it as an occupational hazard and get on working my way through the slump.

Presently I am enjoying a particularly bad patch, not only have a few sites been hit but as a double whammy some of my long term ppc has been given a quality score slap, but like I said I’ll get over it in time.

One thing that has annoyed me though is that my Charity Voucher Codes website Vouchers UK, has been given a slap and moved down from pretty high on page one of Google to the bottom of page 14 for the term Vouchers UK, don’t get me wrong, I don’t expect any special treatment just because half the revenue the site makes goes to charity it just gets my goat that I am not able to raise as much for worthy causes as I would like to.

Anyway writing about the slap has had the desired effect and now I have got the frustration out of my system I can put it behind me and work on getting the site back up to being an also ran in the discount voucher world rather than a non runner.

While on the subject of charity though are you aware of the Existem AM Summer BBQ Charity Raffle in aid of the local RNLI (Royal National Lifeboat Institution) please support them in anyway you can, attend the BBQ, give a prize or at the very least buy a ticket.

Over the last few days Google have been rolling out a new feature, perform a search when you are logged into your Google account and you get the option to customise the results with “Promote” and “Remove” buttons.

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Promoted listings are moved to the top of your search page and removed ones are sent to the bottom of the page.

What implications this is going to have is too early to tell, but with everyone customising their results (well those with google accounts) google are going to take note of whats hot and whats not.

Could it be open to abuse? again too early to tell no doubt the black hats are already on the case.

What do you think of this new feature?