Amazon Instant is the latest site to get a dose of the Google Instant juice. After the brilliance of iTunes Instant and YouTube Instant, the shopping site now has it’s own super-speedy version. As with all the other incarnations of Instant, Amazon Instant throws up suggestions as you type your query. It could be the perfect way of getting present inspiration and brings the experience of randomly browsing the shops to the web. Amazon Instant isn’t nearly as polished as Google Instant or the other incarnations of Instant but it’s still fun to tinker with. Anyone fancy building Electricpig Instant for us?
Out now | £free | Amazon Instant
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iTunes Instant is here! After Google Instant and the genius of YouTube Instant, the realtime search magic has been pointed at Apple’s online store. iTunes Instant is the creation of 15-year-old Stephen Ou (the brains behind two start-ups One Extra Lap and Pitch.ly). Like Google Instant and YouTube Instant, iTunes Instant throws up suggestions as you type with Ou getting a little bit of money through the iTunes affiliate programme if you click on any of the links.
While YouTube Instant’s creator got a job offer from Google, Internet entrepreneur and professional big mouth Jason Calacanis has offered to hire Ou. Want to get an instant job offer and instant internet fame? Creating a Google Instant-inspired project seems to be the answer.
Out now | £free | iTunes Instant
YouTube Instant takes the concept of Google Instant and reinvents it for videos. The creation of Feross Aboukhadijeh, a computer science student at Stanford, YouTube Instant uses the same real-time search smarts as Google Instant. As you type a query, YouTube Instant throws up new videos as you go. It’s brilliant and guaranteed to make your Friday productivity plummet.
Want to make Google Instant even faster? Try our Google Instant tricks.
Out now | £free | YouTube Instant