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Instant Suggestions x15 (for Chrome)

35 points by joepestro 16y ago

djhworld 16y ago
This is great fun to use but not very practical, ever heard the phrase "information overload"? Good crack at it though.
benatkin 16y ago
Inaccurate title. It's like Google Suggest, not Google Instant.
- joepestro 16y ago
  You're right. Updated.
- beaumartinez 16y ago
  "Instant" is the new "suggest".
rabidsnail 16y ago
Too much clutter. There's so much stuff on the screen that I can't read any of it.
wccrawford 16y ago
It seems that I can type just a bit quicker than it expects. I typed 'ana' and came up with a lot of 'a' results. Erase and type slowly and I get the 'ana' results that I expected. I reloaded and tried again and this time came up with 'an' results.
- joepestro 16y ago
  Whoops! I hacked this together this weekend, there might be a few bugs. Thanks for letting me know though.
Groxx 16y ago
Impressive, and I like the speed. Not sure suggestions are my cup-o-tea, though this seems it could be handy if I used them more heavily. And you should probably watch the tab order / arrow keys, sometimes it seems to get lost, and can "select" entries which are not visible. I'd probably capture the tab key in JS and control it manually, otherwise my settings let tab go to every link + form item. I'd probably get more use from something like this which searches my history + bookmarks + delicious + instapaper + etc, and does a normal search on those. Otherwise, currently, I type in "xcode" and get 3 from my bookmarks (missing my "xcode plugin" bookmark, among others), and none from my history, despite having 19 xcode hits in my history.
- aed 16y ago
  I agree. Probably 50% or so of the time I'm looking for something I've looked at before... either in my history or my "archive" that is spread across multiple sites.
aboodman 16y ago
Interesting :) You should start tinkering with the omnibox API and let us know what you think: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/experimental.omnibox.html http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/experimental.omnibo...
DougBTX 16y ago
Interesting - but probably not designed to scale to millions of users like Google Instant.
lhnz 16y ago
Nice try but I think this is a bandwagon you should only jump on if you're willing to put a lot of time into a streamlined UX.
Charuru 16y ago
I don't like the usability of this. There's too many items, and I need to read both horizontally and vertically. You should have only 1 list with larger font, but with everything merged into that 1 list.

35 points by joepestro 16y ago

djhworld 16y ago

This is great fun to use but not very practical, ever heard the phrase "information overload"? Good crack at it though.

benatkin 16y ago

Inaccurate title. It's like Google Suggest, not Google Instant.

joepestro 16y ago
You're right. Updated.
beaumartinez 16y ago
"Instant" is the new "suggest".

rabidsnail 16y ago

Too much clutter. There's so much stuff on the screen that I can't read any of it.

wccrawford 16y ago

It seems that I can type just a bit quicker than it expects. I typed 'ana' and came up with a lot of 'a' results. Erase and type slowly and I get the 'ana' results that I expected. I reloaded and tried again and this time came up with 'an' results.

joepestro 16y ago
Whoops! I hacked this together this weekend, there might be a few bugs. Thanks for letting me know though.

Groxx 16y ago

Impressive, and I like the speed. Not sure suggestions are my cup-o-tea, though this seems it could be handy if I used them more heavily. And you should probably watch the tab order / arrow keys, sometimes it seems to get lost, and can "select" entries which are not visible. I'd probably capture the tab key in JS and control it manually, otherwise my settings let tab go to every link + form item. I'd probably get more use from something like this which searches my history + bookmarks + delicious + instapaper + etc, and does a normal search on those. Otherwise, currently, I type in "xcode" and get 3 from my bookmarks (missing my "xcode plugin" bookmark, among others), and none from my history, despite having 19 xcode hits in my history.

aed 16y ago
I agree. Probably 50% or so of the time I'm looking for something I've looked at before... either in my history or my "archive" that is spread across multiple sites.

aboodman 16y ago

Interesting :) You should start tinkering with the omnibox API and let us know what you think: http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/experimental.omnibox.html http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/experimental.omnibo...

DougBTX 16y ago

Interesting - but probably not designed to scale to millions of users like Google Instant.

lhnz 16y ago

Nice try but I think this is a bandwagon you should only jump on if you're willing to put a lot of time into a streamlined UX.

Charuru 16y ago

I don't like the usability of this. There's too many items, and I need to read both horizontally and vertically. You should have only 1 list with larger font, but with everything merged into that 1 list.