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Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

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Speed it up by not going through your server to get the query suggestions. You can drop the jsonp parameter and just eval the results. Or change the jsonp parameter and include it as a script tag.

I'm now doing everything client-side using JQuery and tags to get around cross-domain XHR limitations. Now Google can't block it. :)

I'm curious: how do you get around crossdomain XHR limitations using tags? Thanks!

Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

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Why the shortened url? I thought HN had them banned for submissions. Full url: http://feross.net/instant/

Seems it's Facebook's shortening url, perhaps for tracking?

I made it while working there. It was originally for the twitter exporter http://twitter.com/search#search?q=fb.me

I don't know what else they're using it for now.

Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

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I like the minimal interface. This website is perfect. Your getting something unexpected stumbleupon style, but you are controlling the seed of randomness, making it more interactive and game like. The funnest thing is entering random letters\nonwords. For example "rowlz".

Now there is somebody with short hair playing guitar coming up everytime exact video search is "undefined" because he has a song called "undefined"....

Glitch with "exact search"? It used to return different results last night like best match, but now seems to be literally searching "undefined"

edit: whatever the change was, this guy is going to get a lot more hits now and the site isn't quite as funny: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNR6aEdwRNI

edit2: nvm it appears to be fixed now.

Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

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doesn't work at all on mac 10.6 with chrome 7 (dev channel)

The site went down earlier because Youtube blocked my server. I rewrote the site to use client-side JS so it should work for you now.

cool, seems to be working now, though I get a click hiccup on first page load, no video or text, but the search box

pretty cool app.

Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

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I'm now doing everything client-side using JQuery and tags to get around cross-domain XHR limitations. Now Google can't block it. :)

I'm curious: how do you get around crossdomain XHR limitations using tags? Thanks!

tags aren't subject to cross-domain restrictions. Think about it - all those website statistics scripts are hosted on external servers, but their Javascript gets executed just fine. By dynamically inserting tags into the page, you can force Javascript from another domain to execute in your domain.
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