# How did they do that? a fast (database) filter, like Spotlight

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**Created:** [January 10, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-did-they-do-that-a-fast-database-filter-like-spotlight/332049 "2014-01-10T03:31:54Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 10, 2014, 3:31am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-did-they-do-that-a-fast-database-filter-like-spotlight/332049/1 "2014-01-10T03:31:54Z")

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There’s a site where there appears to be a long list of people and their titles and locations, and when you type in the filter, like the name “John” for example, it will show all "John"s in \*\*\*real \*\*\*time, kind of like Spotlight on Mac OS X. The site is here:

[http://www.weil.com/people/](http://www.weil.com/people/)

Does anyone know how this is done? Or perhaps more relevant to me, does anyone know if there is some easy way for me to accomplish this myself – like with a Javascript library or something?  
Thanks.