Comments on: Yahoo debuts beta of Instant Search

Net portal says it is trying to make its search results more relevant--and immediate--with this new tool.
Images: Yahoo's Instant Search game

Apple Spotlight does this in OSX, it was called Clairvoyance

I recall that Filemaker Pro and other databse apps had Auto-
Complete and a feature touted as Clairvoyance, the effect of
which was to assist you in typing and predicting what you were
loooking for.


I see that Apple has adopted that feature in many parts of OS X
but it is readily apparent in Tiger's Spotlight which tries to pre-
sort results and narrows down as you type more in

Good to see Yahoo is making AJAX strides to improve search
speed and efficiency.

[indrakanti]

Dude, this is is different

This is instant web search. Spotlight searches only locally on the
hard drive.

Why do you guys start singining "Apple Tunes" even without
knowing what the article is actually about

[czambran]

Correction

[quote] The new offering uses AJAX Web technology, which reduces the need for Web clients to reconnect to a Web server every time information is downloaded.[/quote]
I believe the statement above is misleading. With or without AJAX if u want to get information from the server u will have to reconnect, but AJAX hides this fact from the user because it happens on the background.

Wow! but is it useful?

so what is the use of this thing except to create a wow factor? When I type in 'new', it shows gives me some link to christianity site. For most of the keywords, it does the favor or adding www before and .com after the word if the site exists!

snap.com

has been doing the same for a while...

Yahoo Instant Search

The service may be a snap but Yahoo is still skittish, if not squirmish, about certain keywords like babe, sex, dick (dic is fine) and so on.

[farker1]

Index severely limited

my searches on "baseball," "rome," and "computer" found nothing.

right now, this is useless. how long will it take to develop a worthwhile index?