December 19, 2004
Google Suggest Ripped Apart
Since Google Suggest first appeared on the Internet everyone in the web development community has been beside themselves in how well it works. I have always been a big advocate of developing “light weight” user interfaces (ie not using applets or plugins and just using JavaScript and DOM) to create interactive and fast user interfaces to sights and web tools. Google is achieving these light weight web interface more often now, first with GMail and now with their Google Suggest feature.
For all you developers out there Chris Justus has extracted the JavaScript from Google Suggest and has gone through and commented everything so it is easy to understand. This will allow many others to use similar functionality in their own web development projects. Have a read here.
Links
Google Suggest
Google Suggest Dissected Blog Article
Google Suggest Dissected JavaScript (for the impatient people)
Previous Google Suggest Blog
