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Amount of Time To Determine a User Has Stopped Typing

I have a filter form for a list. One of the fields is a text search field. When a user types in the field, I wait until the user has stopped typing for a half second (500 milliseconds), and then ...
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What is an acceptable delay for the user when waiting for search results?

Is there any research that shows how long a user is willing to wait for search results to come back before they give up? I know Google has made searching instantaneous for people, but barring general ...
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Is Google Instant good or bad UX?

For power users, it clearly saves time in some circumstances. It also jumps around alot and does things that are very different than before. One person said it is like a guy who finishes your ...
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Dynamic search results - a la google?

We've a few apps where I work that make use of content search. EG, you can search for specific text within a document held in our system. One thing we've been looking at is having the search start as ...