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LiveSearch and Google Suggest

XMLHttpRequest is becoming a powerful tool. Used in Javascript to get data from the server without a page refresh, it’s power can be seen in tools such as Google Suggest. Before there was Google Suggest there was LiveSearch which many people have implemented in their blogs. Here’s some sites that may help explain how to use it better:

• Dynamic HTML and XML: The XMLHttpRequest Object
• Google Suggest
• Adam Stiles: Hacking Google Suggest
• LiveSearch Wiki

You can get the code at most of these places in PHP so it’s easy to integrate with Library sites or other projects. A nice way to help people get suggested search terms. I’m trying to find a good thesaurus for a similar project. More later.

[...] I’ve written on my blog multiple times about “LiveSearch” or dynamically loaded results. While heavy on the server it does give an interesting feedback mechanism as you can instantly refine your search and possibly find things that may have been lost otherwise or have just taken too much time to get to. [...]