Elliot Swan

• Daniel August 2nd, 2006 @ 5:50 pm (#)

  I’m just curious.
  Why would you want to condemn Live Search?
  Are you condemning the term (buzzword)? Or the function?
  You have a “better than live search” box right below your name, so I’m just wondering.

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• Elliot Swan August 2nd, 2006 @ 5:52 pm (#)

  The site is buzzword hell, so I’m condemning the buzzword. But just for the record, I do hate live search…

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• Patrick B August 3rd, 2006 @ 6:06 am (#)

  Just for the record, why is “live search” bad, and “better-than-live-search” good?

  A bit of an explainer might be in order…

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• Elliot Swan August 3rd, 2006 @ 10:54 pm (#)

  @Peter: From the article on better-than-live search:

  Because I find the whole live search thing a little bit dumb. There’s a reason that Google Suggest never went out of beta: it’s annoying. It’s completely pointless to start searching when all I’ve typed is a b, wait until I’ve typed better-than-live, then search. I’ll tell you when I’m ready (I know where my enter key is, thank you very much).

  Something that I can see as useful, however, as an AJAX search. You know, eliminate some of those page refreshes. Besides, it’s just so freaking cool.

  Either way though, I don’t see why this matters…I’m condemning a buzzword, not a technique.

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