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More Dynamic Search Interfaces

What was going to be a search add-on for Safari is now available as a beta website. Combines instant search, suggestions and supposedly multiple search engines though right now that just appears to be links to elsewhere, not actually merged in the results. Uses google right now, which is not surprising since they already had a instant search interface.

I’ve seen various trials in libraryland for similar “instant searches”. This one has a nice merged interface. Perhaps we’ll have spellchecking and thesaurus instantly in the future. If you haven’t seen these “instant searches” before, do a search for ‘livesearch’ to see some examples and code for it.

[...] 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. [...]

[...] Ryan Eby gets excited over LiveSearch. And who can blame him? I mention the preceding because it explains the following: two links leading to some good examples of livesearch in the wild. [...]