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16th November 2007 - Link Blog

Yahoo! Search Contextual Precaching. Neat performance trick on Yahoo! Search: the moment you start typing (indicating you intend to search) the site quietly fires off a bunch of requests to precache assets needed for the search results page.

Posted 16th November 2007 at 3:58 pm

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