This post is just in order to clean out some bloglines links that I’ve “saved for later” - which is getting a little out of control!

From a post from the guy who came up with Google Suggest:

The project stemmed from an idea I had a few months ago, and since then I’ve been working on it in my 20% time, which is a program where Google allows their employees to devote 20% of their working hours to any project they choose. What’s really amazed me about this project is how in a matter of months, working on my own, I was able to go from a lunch table conversation to launching a new service. In my opinion, this is one of the things that really makes Google a great place; that the company’s systems, resources and, most important, people are all aligned to make it as easy as possible to take an idea and turn it into something cool.

Some info on how it’s done - XMLHttpRequest. More on auto complete.

UPDATE: More info on how it’s done: Google Suggest Dissected, Part II (Slashdot) and the direct link.

I’ve posted before about XMLHttpRequest and it’s possibly one of my favorite things in the coding world - so I guess I can’t hate Microsoft too much since they’re the ones that first implemented it! I’m just really glad that Mozilla choose to incorporate it too!