Type-ahead is a latency budget wearing a search costume: keystrokes arrive every 200 milliseconds, so anything slower feels broken. Prefix indexes, freshness tiers, and typo tolerance are the scored parts.
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Type-ahead is a latency budget wearing a search costume: keystrokes arrive every 200 milliseconds, so anything slower feels broken. Prefix indexes, freshness tiers, and typo tolerance are the scored parts.
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