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The real question, I suppose, is how much lag is there in creating a new browser tab with the results of the query? (at least for Safari)
What would also be interesting is to show the top search results (with snippets) in a flyout submenu of the menu item…
By http://blasdelf.livejournal.com/ · 2007.12.26 06:11
I know I already said it in IM, but I like the idea you came up with for dividing the different sections of search results. Sort of a “source list in a menu” thing.
By Scott Stevenson · 2007.12.26 07:14
Fred: I’m not sure I’m getting that question, but opening search results takes as much or as little time as when you click on a URL and it opens up in Safari.
Results are in there and will when activated show up with the suggestions in a section in the same list (you can choose their order). The reason results aren’t in this video is because I wanted to show off the speed that Google Suggest can handle. Most of the lag where suggestions remain from earlier queries is actually caused by my own code to throttle requests to Google Suggest. As the code stands today, it waits until all kinds of search help (suggestions and results) has arrived before showing any of it, and results take maybe two seconds longer to fetch than does suggestions, so for now I had to disable them to be able to show off the speed of Google Suggest.
(For those keeping score, the three current search helpers are Google Suggest, Google search results and autocompletion suggestions from the spelling checker’s word list. I’m wary of using the term “dictionary” for that since it’s easily confused with the Dictionary dictionary.)
Scott: I think it’s pulled off better here, since the font size is smaller, and it’s more evident that relatively speaking, the text is small caps, not just caps in a slightly smaller font.
Oh, and that’s not technically a menu, by the way. That’s WebKit. Which means that the appearance could be changed with stylesheets.
By Jesper · 2007.12.26 10:50
Wow, the feature I requested is already in there!
By http://blasdelf.livejournal.com/ · 2007.12.27 09:47