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Without typing anything in the search box, hit down arrow to get a list of suggested searches. My personalization was extremely spot on given that I haven't use
by pgroves 15y ago
Without typing anything in the search box, hit down arrow to get a list of suggested searches. My personalization was extremely spot on given that I haven't used Lycos in 10 years.
- smhinsey 15y agoI think that's just random auto-complete noise caused by the fact that their search input uses a fairly common name.
- stevejohnson 15y agoNo, it was creepily relevant for me too. It seems to know what I've been typing into Github over the past 24 hours.
- iso8859-1 15y agoI don't think you understand. Try using it in incognito mode. It even works there. Try clearing your browser form history. Now it doesn't.
- stevejohnson 15y agoYou're right, I completely misread the grandparent.
- stevejohnson 15y agoWould the downvoters kindly explain themselves? I intended to pose an honest question about how they're doing autocomplete. Apparently I'm the only one who hasn't seen that particular behavior on a search engine before. I don't recall that specific set of suggestions show up in any other search box I've used, probably because I don't pay attention. Edit: I see now that I misinterpreted the parent. I thought he meant those just happened to be the top Lycos search terms, but he meant that the name of the form element was shared with other sites that have search fields I use.
- koenigdavidmj 15y agoI wonder what the source is. It had access to a lot of keywords for which I searched on my company's internal code search system.
- there 15y agoOther forms you've filled out in your browser with an <input name="q">
- RossM 15y agoThat's the browser's autocomplete, probably triggered by the field being named 'q'. It tracks what you've entered into other fields (I assume named 'q'), hence I get lots of testing data from my current project's search field.