Reverse autocomplete: a small tweak on the familiar feature

Posted by lkozma on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @07:35AM
from the lkozma.net dept.

http://www.lkozma.net/autocomplete.html

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Re:Reverse autocomplete: a small tweak on the familiar feature by eru on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @08:50AM (#241063)

Would be even better if it was more fuzzy.

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Re:Reverse autocomplete: a small tweak on the familiar feature by lkozma on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @09:01AM (#241069)

I agree, but I wanted to try out just one idea, it can still be combined with all the existing stuff.

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Re:Reverse autocomplete: a small tweak on the familiar feature by eru on Friday July 11, 2008 @12:35PM (#243709)

Yes. And your idea is neat indeed.

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Re:Reverse autocomplete: a small tweak on the familiar feature by jimbokun on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @10:55AM (#241209)

A similar technique is covered in this book, under "Wildcard Queries."

http://www-csli.stanford.edu/~hinrich/information-retrieval-...

(see page 38 in the pdf for chapter 3)

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Re:Reverse autocomplete: a small tweak on the familiar feature by breck on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @01:17PM (#241380)

For some silly reason it didn't work for me(FF 3.0rc2), but is it similar to the auto complete in the new firefox address bar? I've found the new address bar to be a huge improvement over the old style of autocomplete.

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Re:Reverse autocomplete: a small tweak on the familiar feature by arjunbanker on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @12:36PM (#241333)

cool demo. i guess i haven't really noticed this problem since it usually seems faster to clear the search box and re-type your query.

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Re:Reverse autocomplete: a small tweak on the familiar feature by ajkirwin on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @11:29PM (#241977)

Same. I tend to erase and retype, or ctrl-left back a few words, select, very quickly overwrite.

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Re:Reverse autocomplete: a small tweak on the familiar feature by AndyKelley on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @12:45PM (#241347)

Not a big deal, but a cool idea. I'll be sure to implement this next time I program auto complete.

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Re:Reverse autocomplete: a small tweak on the familiar feature by brandon272 on Wednesday July 09, 2008 @06:27PM (#241757)

That's a great step toward a better user experience. Good job.

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