Chapter 6. Reading the User’s Mind with Auto-Complete

Ajax the Thoroughbred Racehorse

Ajax the Thoroughbred Racehorse

If you had been a gambler in Australia in the 1930s, you might’ve thought of Ajax in a much different light. You could’ve made quite a bundle betting on Ajax the champion Australian thoroughbred racehorse, who is remembered for winning 18 races in a row and was later inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame.

When Ajax first hit the Web scene, one of the most immediately beneficial examples of it was Google Suggest, which uses Ajax to assist you in performing searches by attempting to auto-complete the search text. Google Suggest is a particularly compelling ...

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