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JustBats.com Suggestive Search

Posted by Nick P on Jul 10, 2012 1:13:46 PM

Auto-complete, auto-correct, incremental search, instant search, predictive search, search as you type, suggestive search, are all terms that describe a similar experience on Websites where data is returned when a user is searching for information and has only entered a few characters. According to Wikipedia, the book of knowledge, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autocomplete) the original purpose of word prediction software was to help people with physical disabilities increase their typing speed, as well as to help them decrease the number of keystrokes needed in order to complete a word or a sentence. It has become an expectation on eCommerce websites, so we determined that JustBats.com needed to offer this functionality to our users as well.

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