• Wired, Thursday, September 9, 2010 11:44 AM

Wired's Gadget Lab is less enthused about the immediate implications of Google Instant and its ability to save 350 million man-hours a year than some, saying, "Its real-use cases are still on the way: local, mobile, and video search." And those real-use cases, as proposed here, are people not on laptops, but those using tiny keypads in low light: those searching for a show or movie on TV.

"Anything a company can do to minimize the number of keystrokes and make that process as painless as possible is going to be a tremendous usability boon to its customers," writes Gadget Lab. "If Google TV is really going to be the "one screen to rule them all," it has to solve that problem."

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