Simon Willison’s Weblog

Introduction to Information Retrieval (via) This looks excellent—a modern guide to implementing search engines written by some of the engineers behind Yahoo! Search. The full text is available online, but it looks like it’s well worth investing in the dead tree edition.

# 9th February 2009, 8:54 pm / search, yahoosearch, books, freebooks

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.

# 16th November 2007, 3:58 pm / performance, javascript, ajaxian, yahoo, yahoosearch