Auto Suggest AJAX code

Posted on August 7th, 2008

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When building the our iPhone friendly bluefurdomains.com site we decided to test an auto suggest AJAX code that is similar to what you find on youtube and google. If your not sure what that means you can test it here by typing abb and you will see suggestions will start to be added bellow the box.

The code for it can be found here.

I can think of various applications for this script. OneĀ could be a suggestion of commonly searched topics on your site instead of just an empty search box.

What do you think of auto suggest?

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Comment by Andrew. Lawyer.
2008-08-08 19:54:32

Awesome code magic!

I typically love auto suggest. I like the way Google can tell what other people were searching for, so it makes entering my search string even quicker. Sometimes it’s accuracy actually scares me. :)

 
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Comment by Dr. Cossack
2008-08-08 20:17:33

It’s something nice to have in some contexts, although it’s not that great in others as I can often type what I’m looking for faster than the speed at which the auto suggest pops up. ;)

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Comment by blogadmin
2008-08-08 20:20:58

I agree on a QWERTY keyboard I can always out type an auto suggest.

On an iPhone hmmmm not so much.

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Comment by Matt
2008-08-09 12:57:01

iPhone is a QWERTY keyboard. :P You still can’t type quickly on it?

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Comment by blogadmin
2008-08-09 13:28:04

Where I would say it is a qwerty touchscreen.

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Comment by Matt
2008-08-09 17:52:10

Still a QWERTY.

 
 
 
 
 

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