There’s always something to howl about.

So you thought your listing Search Function sucked yesterday?

Say hello to Google Instant, launched overnight.

Go to Google. Type the letter “R” and Realtor.com appears in the search result list.No button click required. Keep typing and the search results change on the fly.

My first impression as a user is positive.  It is just neat.  As a geek, I marvel at the engineering and infrastructure required to pull this off for millions of simultaneous users. As a guy who helps real estate companies with SEO and SEM — I’m still figuring it out.

What is clear is that Google has fundamentally changed search, and quite possibly has raised the bar for search user experience — unless the novelty wears off and it becomes annoying.

What is far less clear is what this means for SEO and SEM.

TechCrunch has one of the more level and least speculative write ups on that….

SearchEngineLand, on the other hand, seem to be trying  not to wet its pants…