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Predictive Google Searching

Google Suggest is pretty nifty beta by the boys from California.

Start typing in the search box and Google tries to predict what you are searching for. The searching immediately happens, on-the-fly if you like, listing possible matches as you type. The predictive matches Google displays are based on ëpopularity informationí, in a similar fashion to the data available in the Google Zeitgeist.

Technically it works in a very similar fashion to LiveSearch, by utilising the XMLHttpRequest object in javascript. However, the object only returns matches if itís a popular string or phrase ó presumably to avoid having to interactively query the whole internet on each keystroke, and crashing your computer in the process.

Posted 7 years, 5 months ago