See for yourself -> http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1

It's the same technique as LiveSearch, just with a far more powerful search engine behind ;)

Bernhard Seefeld @ 10.12.2004 17:46 CET
Very nice indeed. It doesn't do a full google search however, just try to search for a very unique word: It won't complete it. They probably took the most popular queries that fit into RAM :-)

Ned Baldessin @ 10.12.2004 17:49 CET
Wow.

I don't understand exactly what is included and what is excluded from the suggestion index. The number of results doesn't seem to be a factor. Maybe something like the added page rank of the sites beggining with the given string ? (just thinking out loud)

Nico Edtinger @ 10.12.2004 18:20 CET
Maybe someone is bored and translates their javascript into something readable: http://www.google.com/ac.js

b4n

Ivan @ 10.12.2004 19:09 CET
It seems the httpRequest object is going mainstream.

Google's "suggest" has still some issues with special keys (tab, backspace ...), at least in my computer, which unfortunatly has a lot of issues by itself :)

One thing I miss is that when using this technique I can't see the browser's own autocompletion, which I really like since many times I tend to search again and again the same stuff.
They could store my searches in a cookie and prioritize them when showing the suggestions, putting them at the top of the list in bold would be great.

prip @ 10.12.2004 22:30 CET
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=132312&cid=11054992

Daryl @ 11.12.2004 18:15 CET
Maybe I'm mistaken but it seems there is a big difference between livesearch and google suggest.
Google suggest is displaying suggestions based on other peoples searches and the number of times a word or phrase has been searched for. Where livesearch is displaying actual search results as you type.
This is why it appears that google doesn't do a full search.

Gerd Riesselmann @ 12.12.2004 13:10 CET
I don't know if you know, but your live search has a bug: Just type a keyword with no result (I tried "jre") and press return:

"Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'BxPageNotFoundException' with message 'archive/?q=jre was not found.' in ..."

It really is quite cool, though.

chregu @ 12.12.2004 13:19 CET
Gerd: It's not LiveSearch, which has a bug, but the Blog software, which throws an exception, if no entry is found, have to fix this..

Thanks for the hint.

xriso @ 13.12.2004 18:26 CET
They already have a proof of concept firefox extension for google suggest: http://www.loconet.ca . Still has some issues but pretty cool for a late night hacking session.

Karsten Dambekalns @ 16.12.2004 23:22 CET
Heh, Google Suggest doesn't even have working keyboard repeat :/ Just try holding the cursor-down key. Pffft...

Vitaliy @ 28.12.2004 21:42 CET
I tried to make some simultaneous connection and it is problems with it. It seem to me that browser limit connections, that can be open on client side with such approach.