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Google Instant Now For Google Places

Google Places TopGoogle has launched Google Instant Search for Google Place search results.

To see this yourself, conduct a search on Google and then click on “Places” in the left-hand panel. Then type in the search box and Google Instant will predict and auto fill your searches.

Here is an example query for pizza:

Google Instant Places

Google continues to roll out Google Instant on their vertical search features. Last month, Google Product Search gained Instant Search and Google promises to “continue to expand Instant to all views, languages and domains over the next few months.”

This roll out comes the week after Yahoo launched Search Direct.

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