As big a Google fan as I am, I can't *stand* Google Instant. If I could express the degree to which I can't stand it, I would (but I can't). On a scale of 1 to 10 though -- 1 being "passionately in love" and 10 being... whatever "the opposite of passionately in love" is -- I'd probably give it a literal googol. Great idea, but it sucks.

Google Instant: you're annoying.

• I don't want my entire set of search results to change with each key press.
• I don't want the entire page to refresh with each key press.
  • In fact, the only thing I really like about the suggestions they give (and suggestions are not the same as Google Instant) is when I use them as a spell-check tool (but that's a different story).
• Hitting the "enter" key is really not that hard.

I can't even imagine how much bandwidth Google Instant uses.

... And since that information is probably "privileged" or something, I ran a little test myself (not much, but it's better than nothing... kinda... OH and FYI you'll probably have to hit the "full screen" button in order to be able to see anything):

Maybe it doesn't look like much, but multiply the bytes downloaded times the number of searches you do in a day times the number of people who use Google (millions), and those numbers can add up pretty quick.

So, as I've asked before, PLEASE GET RID OF GOOGLE INSTANT.