Typeview – see what your users type before they press ‘enter’

Re:Typeview – see what your users type before they press ‘en... by potatolicious on Monday June 03, 2013 @01:41PM (#5814606)

The difference is that search-as-you-type is immediately obvious that it's occurring. Unless there is an obvious user cue that their typing is being sent immediately across the network, I'd consider this more scary than helpful.

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Re:Typeview – see what your users type before they press ‘en... by kunle on Monday June 03, 2013 @01:49PM (#5814666)

Thanks for the suggestion - we'll include an indicator telling you when this happens, with an opt-out enabling you to prevent it from happening.

EDIT: "You" = any visitor to a site enabled with Hipmob.

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Re:Typeview – see what your users type before they press ‘en... by krapp on Monday June 03, 2013 @02:43PM (#5814993)

It should be opt in by default.

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Re:Typeview – see what your users type before they press ‘en... by tlrobinson on Monday June 03, 2013 @02:00PM (#5814737)

Also, search-as-you-type data is probably discarded immediately, not recorded for a human to review later.

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Re:Typeview – see what your users type before they press ‘en... by fomojola on Monday June 03, 2013 @02:11PM (#5814804)

Tom, thanks for the comment: we've disabled Typeview while we work on the privacy and user experience. We clearly didn't think that through as well as we should have. As it turns out Google search-as-you-type is actually retained for 2 weeks in full, and then whittled down after that. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/180655?hl=en. Google probably doesn't have human review of the data though: the machines are much better for that at their scale.

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Re:Typeview – see what your users type before they press ‘en... by potatolicious on Monday June 03, 2013 @02:19PM (#5814840)

There is a contextual difference beyond just UI cues too. Making a user unwittingly transmit information to you is probably at most a minor sin when the receiving end is a dumb machine that doesn't do much/anything with the data.

Making a user unwittingly transmit information to another human is a much bigger deal.

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