Monday, December 13th, 2004
Google Labs is always coming up with interesting ideas. They’ve got another winner with the newest addition: Google Suggest.
It’s a makeover of google.com with a tweak that auto-completes the search term you are typing. A drop-down list of popular search terms is generated with each character typed. The amazing part is how quickly it works.
As documented in this slashdot comment, it is implemented using an XmlHttpRequest in a Javascript that sends very small amounts of data back and forth to update the list.
