Search Suggestions Match Any Word, and Facets Stay on Screen

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Two changes on the hosted search page: past searches are suggested from any word you type, and the facets no longer scroll away.

01 Suggestions from any word

  • Any word, any position. Typing curr, alterna or alternating curr all suggest the past search measuring alternating current. Before, only its first letters did.
  • Best match first. Searches that start with what you typed come first, then the ones searched most often.
  • Fast at any size. Each past search is stored with its words, so a suggestion is one indexed lookup whether an index has a hundred past searches or millions.

02 Facets stay on screen

  • Pinned under the search bar. On desktop the facet sidebar stays in view while you scroll through the results.
  • Its own scroll. The sidebar always fits the screen and scrolls by itself, so the last filter is reachable even with infinite scroll, where the page never ends.
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