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Google Instant was a feature of Google Search that displayed suggested results while the user typed. It operated from 2010 to 2017.

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How does Google Instant work?

Any ideas on exactly how the new google instant search works? It seems to just be AJAX calls to the old search, but it's pretty hard to simplify Google that much. Anybody have speculations? EDIT: I know there is AJAX sent with each keypress, but…
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How to detect that Google Instant page has loaded completely?

I'm working on a browser extension (think SEOQuake) - I need to display some data about the search results that are shown. Issue: If anything is added to the Google Instant results page while it's still in the process of being loaded, it'll…
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How does Google predict our words?

Possible Duplicate: How does Google Instant work? Often we use Google to search any content, but when we type any word in the text box of Google's engine, Google tries to predict the word or even recently it uses Google Instant Search to produce…
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How to add a google instant search bar to ios application

I want to add a google instant search bar in my iOS application like the one in iOS Safari and I couldn't find it anywhere. Can you guys help? Thanks in advance.
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How to disable Google Instant Search from within http url query?

Some of my programs send direct queries to Google and then parse the HTML results - for instance http://www.google.com/search?q=foobar&hl=en&num=20. Unfortunately, it seems that since very recently, when sending such queries to Google, the "num"…
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Google instant - How is the page snapshot generated?

When we click on magnifying glass icon, in google instant search, a snapshot of the web page is shown with results hightlighted. What technologies are used to generate that web-page snapshot and search string highlighting ?
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How does Google Chrome Instant Omnibox work?

How does omnibox instant in Google Chrome 9 work ? I enabled developer panel and checked, but didn't find any XHRs being fired... Is the Omnibar hidden from developer panel ?
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PHP/Javascript - Instant search, but different?

I have a page with a blank search bar, and then a bunch on contacts below it in a table. Each contact is one div. I want to be able to filter the contact table as text is entered into the search bar. (So, for instance, if "Fran" was typed in to the…
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I'm looking for a clone of Google Instant that dynamically changes the page as you continue to type (autocomplete)

I'm trying to find a tutorial or script that has most of the Google Instant functionality but I would be hit my API instead of Google and then displaying results from my domain.
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How to detect that a new google instant page has been shown?

I'm working on a browser extension that needs to make a call when a new google instant page is served and then modify the results (think SEOQuake). Issue: If a user pastes a link directly into the url field and presses enter, a new page load will…
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Why does accessing binding's views in dynamic feature module cause NullPointerException error?

When data binding is used inside dynamic feature module layout files and the same views/widgets I try to access inside fragment or activity throws NullPointerException error. At same time if I try to access same view with findById it works…
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What is the technology behind Google Buzz?

I am really curious to know how Google Buzz and Facebook implement their comment feature which is being updated instantly. is it similar to Google wave technology? are there any resources to learn that technology and implement it to our…
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Get URL of page that isn't appearing in the search bar? Google instant

I'm developing an extension and I've run into a problem... I'm wondering how would I grab the URL's of a Google instant search page? Since the browsers http bar doesn't update! I would really appreciate any help with this! Google instant appears to…
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How to detect when the google search page completed loaded to avoid the side-effect from instant-search

I am currently working on a Chrome Extension that needs to read the page content from a Google search after the query has been fully input and the search page completed loaded. However, the Google instant-search brought major changes to the…
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Retrieving Google Instant Data

I want to develop an application that will visualize the recommendations of Google instant. It is for a course project and for now, I don't know much about web programming tools. What I wonder is that is it possible to retrieve that data from…
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