Comments on: Damn Live Search

By: Elliot Swan

Elliot Swan — Fri, 04 Aug 2006 05:54:31 +0000

@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.

By: Patrick B

Patrick B — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 13:06:56 +0000

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

A bit of an explainer might be in order…

By: Elliot Swan

Elliot Swan — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:52:23 +0000

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

By: Daniel

Daniel — Thu, 03 Aug 2006 00:50:06 +0000

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.