search su
| Monday, July 16th, 2007 | --Sean |
The Search Suggest feature, which provides a list of guesses at what you might be trying to type in that input field, has been making its way around for a little while to various Yahoo! services, notably AllTheWeb LiveSearch and the Yahoo! Firefox 2 searchbox. But it's finally made the jump to the big time, debuting last week on the Yahoo! home page. It's fast, clean, and works basically just how you'd expect.
If you type part of a long query that you're not sure how to spell, it'll finish it off for you:
It even completes from the middle of phrases:
It's not a new feature -- lots of people have been playing around with this idea for a while -- but it's definitely no small feat to get it working so smoothly on one of the most highly trafficked sites on the Web. Try it out! Or don't try it out, by clicking that Disable link.