Meaningful autocomplete still missing

Johannes Stiehler
Random Rant
#Autocomplete
#Search
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Some time ago we blogged about the sad state of search functions on German websites. Newspaper portals in particular have a large amount of high-quality content, but without powerful search, only the latest articles can be found in a useful way.

In this video, we take a look at major publications and how they deal with the issue of search and autocomplete. A spoiler ahead: the situation is unchanged.

For the moment, we limited ourselves to German publications, so the video is also only available in a DE version.

Johannes Stiehler
Johannes Stiehler
CO-Founder NEOMO GmbH
Johannes has spent his entire professional career working on software solutions that process, enrich and surface textual information.

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