# A tip on making autocompletes smarter

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-tip-on-making-autocompletes-smarter/239907>\
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**Created:** [September 27, 2007, 3:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-tip-on-making-autocompletes-smarter/239907 "2007-09-27T03:46:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![susancbk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@susancbk](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/susancbk)\
**Post date:** [September 27, 2007, 3:46am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/a-tip-on-making-autocompletes-smarter/239907/1 "2007-09-27T03:46:01Z")

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I was looking at several auto complete solutions out there (mootools, yahoo ui, scriptaculous)

and they all didn’t work as i wanted if my search omited words…

ie… say im searching for a camera… the full model name is “Canon PowerShot SD800 IS Digital Elph”

but i can only remember its a canon , and its the model sd800

but using those autocomplete solutions, if i put in “canon sd800” it turns up nothing.  
Its only when I put in “canon powershot sd…” that it began to suggest stuff…  
It didnt work if i omited parts of the search query…

i wrote out how i fixed it here  
[http://www.susanbuck.net/sb/words/index.asp?permanent=yes&permKey=163](http://www.susanbuck.net/sb/words/index.asp?permanent=yes&permKey=163)