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4 Responses to “Damn Live Search”

1. Daniel says:

   August 2, 2006 at 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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2. Elliot Swan says:

   August 2, 2006 at 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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3. Patrick B says:

   August 3, 2006 at 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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4. Elliot Swan says:

   August 3, 2006 at 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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Hey there, I’m Elliot. I'm co-founder of DuroCast and do freelance web work. My side projects include Postable, WorthWorkingFor, TweetRemote, Accidental Procrastination, FlipFor.Us, ShootYourselfWith.Us, StalkMy[dot]Com, Shweetness, and Man of Pink. Some of these places actually exist, and some I wish existed.