How Bing Could have Almost Beaten Google to Instant Search a Year Ago

The clever geeky search guru we’re talking about here is Long Zheng. A year ago, he wrote a front-end engine for Microsoft’s own search engine, using existing APIs and coding tricks, that does almost exactly the same sort of “updating as you type” tricks that Instant does on Google. Check it out by clicking this link, and entering any old search phrase that comes to mind.