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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. :)
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 don't know what else they're using it for now.
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".
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.
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.
pretty cool app.
Apparently he got a job offer from YouTube: http://venturebeat.com/2010/09/10/youtube-instant-job/
Nice idea. However, for me it's currently too slow to be really usable (sorry!). Just goes to show how amazing Google Instant is, I think.
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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!