This was big news back then... for interface developers. Its popularity influenced a lot of further development (including spurring Google's AJAX Search API, I

This was big news back then... for interface developers. Its popularity influenced a lot of further development (including spurring Google's AJAX Search API, I believe) and established it as a popular paradigm. But I remember the version of it on Yahoo's then-beta search site, not this more extensive version on AllTheWeb. Here's an example: http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/2005/12/distracting-or-narrowing-looking.html http://looksgoodworkswell.blogspot.com/2005/12/distracting-o... I guess this was a more limited version of it, but it made a lot of sense to just pop up the most relevant result immediately.