How the heck do Google Suggest and Kayak.com work?

If you were like me and have had pains waiting for Orbitz to give you the flight information and fare - biting your nails in suspense to get the fares, then I am sure you will be pleasantly surprised when you use Kayak or Google Suggest.


So if you are wondering how these technologies work -- its based on a technology called AJAX.

AJAX stands for Asynchronous Javascript and XML and I found this really cool article on AJAX:adaptive path » ajax: a new approach to web applications. Basically when a website is equipped with AJAX, it has an AJAX engine runing on the server. This figure, from the same article, shows how the architecture:

Finally ---- a better way to browse....

Cheers
Nomad