Using Google Instant (which in default) for Google Search is by all means disturbing, annoying, vexing, irritating, name it. I have to press a letter in my keyboard several times before I can write the exact word since Google keeps interrupting what I want to type. I am sure everyone has the same annoying experience with Google Instant. Google should throw away this crap.
Mostly professionals dont like this new change made by Google.com! it also make big problems for the one who work on Search Engines
i have the instant off, cause i agree with you. Instant makes sometimes a blank page or just gave me 3 results :s
when you start typing your search term, look to the right of the text area it will say turn instant off
i turned off Instant. it was not that much friendly and even i dont want to see results before my search.
It's nice but a bit unstable, sometimes it bugs out showing like 3 or 4 results and you can't get it to show more.
I think the best solution is to turn it off, Google know that it will not go down well with lots of users and the alternative to turn it off was provide. I am happy that this alternative was taken into consideration by Google.
Google offers two ways to disable this Instant search. The first way – There is a 'Instant is on' drop-down list on the right side of the the search box, expand this drop-download list and choose 'Off' to disable the Instant search feature. The second way – At the bottom of the 'Search Settings' panel, there is an option for Google Instant, here you can turn it on or off. You can learn more details from this post - http://flash-video-player.blogspot.com/2010/09/google-instant-brief-guide.html
For us who know more stuff about the Internet, yes we know how to turn it off and end the vexation brought about by Google. But most users in the Google are clueless how to turn it off. Google is killing itself with this useless Google Instant.
I turned it off the 1st day it appeared on the screen,i just hope that google will get the message and do way with it over time.