links on autocomplete for search

• Searchers Punt Early [netflix movie searching]

  Walter Underwood of Netflix posts about the minimal text that people use to search for movie titles.  Examples include frank g[ehry], baron mu[nchausen], and apoc[alypto]. Adding auto-complete to the search field improved usability considerably.

  tags: autocomplete search log analysis analysis

• Typeahead Search With CouchDB | Couchbase Blog

  Algorithm and code for implementing autocomplete with CouchDB, based on frequency of words in the index.

  tags: autocomplete APIs JavaScript

• Organizing query completions for web search

  Creating autocomplete suggestions based on query logs, click-through patterns and reformulation, and clustering them with an appropriate label.  The result is compared to web search logs, but not tested with users or click-through analysis.
  
  (PDF available from author's page)

  tags: autocomplete clustering click-tracking search log analysis

• US patents on "autocomplete"

  A scary number of software patent applications on autocomplete.

  tags: autocomplete

• Advancing search query autocompletion services with more and better suggestions

  An academic approach to efficiency in generating autocompletion suggestions, and evaluating the results using only query logs as input.  I think that more traditional relevance testing with user assessments and click-tracking is much more likely to be meaningful.  
  
  (PDF is available at the authors' publications pages)

  tags: autocomplete relevance evaluation search log analysis

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