I wasn't claiming I was being personally picked on, just that the attitude here is quite sad.
I apologise for interpreting "Yeah it's been around for a while." as somebody saying they had seen it a long time ago. My bad. Tim On 9 September 2010 17:55, Kyle Spencer <[email protected]> wrote: > Tim, > > "You know guys, I saw an interesting piece of technology, just been > unveiled, and decided to share it amongst the different LUG mailing > lists I subscribe to. Everyone was really impressed by it, and it led > to interesting discussions as to how they were doing it. All except > this one, where people either sneered and said they had seen it a long > time ago, or they tried to pick a fight. What gives?" > > > I think you're misinterpreting people's responses :) > > Regards, > Kyle Spencer > > On 9/9/2010 7:34 PM, Tim Schofield wrote: >> >> Well I suspect you are looking at it as a user rather than a developer >> then. >> >> The reason that Google considered it worthy of a new product launch is >> that the underlying technology is completely different. To auto >> complete a text box with some standard entries is complex, but really >> for an accomplished programmer not that hard. To auto return search >> results in real time as the user enters text, wow thats hard, believe >> me. Think about the complexities involved in doing that, and not just >> doing it for me, but simultaneously doing it for millions of queries. >> >> You know guys, I saw an interesting piece of technology, just been >> unveiled, and decided to share it amongst the different LUG mailing >> lists I subscribe to. Everyone was really impressed by it, and it led >> to interesting discussions as to how they were doing it. All except >> this one, where people either sneered and said they had seen it a long >> time ago, or they tried to pick a fight. What gives? >> >> Tim >> >> >> On 9 September 2010 17:24, sanga collins<[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> ya its autocompletely fabulous. >>> >>> but seriously its autocomplete, but while autocompleting the search >>> results >>> dsiplayed change as you add more characters >>> >>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Tim Schofield<[email protected]> >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> No it isnt, its much more than auto completion. >>>> >>>> According to this: >>>> >>>> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/09/09/google_instant_analysis/ >>>> >>>> google unveiled it at its San Francisco headquarters on the morning of >>>> 8/9/2010 PDT. Its great if they released it in Uganda before the USA, >>>> but I suspect not. >>>> >>>> Thanks >>>> Tim >>>> >>>> >>>> On 9 September 2010 17:06, sanga collins<[email protected]> >>>> wrote: >>>>> >>>>> Ii is auto completetion on steriods. The same feature we've had for a >>>>> while >>>>> juiced up to return more relevant results faster. >>>>> >>>>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 12:00 PM, Tim Schofield<[email protected]> >>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>> On 9 September 2010 16:54, Peter C. Ndikuwera<[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>> >>>>>>> On 9 September 2010 14:26, McTim<[email protected]> wrote: >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> On Thu, Sep 9, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Tim Schofield<[email protected]> >>>>>>>> wrote: >>>>>>>>> >>>>>>>>> Has everybody seen this? >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> I've been seeing it for awhile now, thot it was just >>>>>>>> auto-completion. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>> Yeah it's been around for a while. >>>>>>> >>>>>> Really? In the UK where I am at the moment its only just been >>>>>> released. You sure your not thinking about the auto-completion, thats >>>>>> been around for awhile? >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> -- >>>>>> WebERP Africa Ltd >>>>>> +447710427049 >>>>>> +256752963327 >>>>>> +255784602561 >>>>>> www.weberpafrica.com >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> LUG mailing list >>>>>> [email protected] >>>>>> http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug >>>>>> >>>>>> LUG is generously hosted by INFOCOM http://www.infocom.co.ug/ >>>>>> >>>>>> All Archives can be found at >>>>>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >>>>>> >>>>>> The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them >>>>>> (including >>>>>> attachments if any). The List's Host is not responsible for them in >>>>>> any >>>>>> way. >>>>>> --------------------------------------- >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> -- >>>>> Sanga M. 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