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Auto Populate Search Box

how is the auto-populate feature done

         

Aspen54

8:35 pm on Sep 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

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Does anyone know of the technology used to peform that "auto populate" style search features common on the major search engines/sites. Went through many of the forums however needless to say doing a search on "search features" doesn't really work out too well in a SEO forum.

If anyone has the specific name of this feature that would be great along with any implementations using ASP/SQL that would be great too.

TIA

Demaestro

9:20 pm on Sep 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

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It is commonly reffered to as autocomplete. You can do this with Ajax.

There are a few libraries out there that do it out of the box with some customizing.

The new YUI one is nice.

[developer.yahoo.com...]

Example:
[developer.yahoo.com...]

Aspen54

11:50 pm on Sep 28, 2010 (gmt 0)

10+ Year Member



Thank you for the info and for taking the time to post.