> BTW, I am not sure if this behavior is something expected from user > experience point of view since I looked at Google, Yahoo! and Bing, all of > them did the same thing: once you pressed enter, the search textinput lost > focus. You would have to regain focus for the textinput to do another search.
I just found out that the "RL ToDoList" widget at igoogle.com does exactly the same thing as I wanted, except that it is AJAX...:) http://rlwidgets.com/