Is there an official term for the automatic search that Google Instant uses once you stop typing for about 1 second? This is also used on UX.SE when searching for a user. I am looking to add this into a client application and have been searching for information on how to do it in our platform, but can't find much. My guess is that I am not using the right terminology.
Is there an official term for this type of behavior? (Not the prediction aspect, but the search results being processed without actually clicking search)
Answer
Results as you type is the term used by Google themselves (which links on to the page about autocomplete)
This SemaText page suggests a collection of terms:
- Search AutoComplete
- Auto-Complete
- Auto-Suggest
- Search suggest
- Suggest as you type
- Read-ahead
YUI is an example css and javascript library that has a controllable query delay that you can use to change the delay before a query is activated when the user pauses typing.
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