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Don't tell Google, Facebook or Twitter, Instant Search Hacked In 2+ Hrs (ytlatest.com)
2 points by MII9 on Oct 3, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 3 comments



What exactly does this prove? Oh man, you used AJAX to call an API and pull up a result from it.

Let me know when it scales to millions of people hitting your page every hour, with it still returning the results in a fraction of a second, and with it hitting your own site's and server's API every time. That's what was technically impressive about Google's Instant Search, not the simple javascript behind it.


Doesn't work for me. Chrome on Ubuntu.

Yes. Very easy.


Same for chromium 7.




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