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Re:Show HN: Holy shit Lycos still exists by smhinsey on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @06:39PM (#3677840)
I think that's just random auto-complete noise caused by the fact that their search input uses a fairly common name.
Re:Show HN: Holy shit Lycos still exists by stevejohnson on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @06:45PM (#3677865)
No, it was creepily relevant for me too. It seems to know what I've been typing into Github over the past 24 hours.
Re:Show HN: Holy shit Lycos still exists by stevejohnson on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @08:00PM (#3678133)
Would the downvoters kindly explain themselves? I intended to pose an honest question about how they're doing autocomplete. Apparently I'm the only one who hasn't seen that particular behavior on a search engine before. I don't recall that specific set of suggestions show up in any other search box I've used, probably because I don't pay attention.

Edit: I see now that I misinterpreted the parent. I thought he meant those just happened to be the top Lycos search terms, but he meant that the name of the form element was shared with other sites that have search fields I use.

Re:Show HN: Holy shit Lycos still exists by iso8859-1 on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @07:07PM (#3677958)
I don't think you understand. Try using it in incognito mode. It even works there. Try clearing your browser form history. Now it doesn't.
Re:Show HN: Holy shit Lycos still exists by stevejohnson on Wednesday March 07, 2012 @08:03PM (#3678141)
You're right, I completely misread the grandparent.