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The clever geeky search guru we\u2019re talking about here is Long Zheng. A year ago, he wrote a front-end engine for Microsoft\u2019s own search engine, using existing APIs and coding tricks, that does almost exactly the same sort of \u201cupdating as you type\u201d tricks that Instant does on Google. Check it out by clicking this link, and entering any old search phrase that comes to mind.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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