Dec 10 2004

The Code Behind Google Scholar

Category: IT Thoughts, Techy Stuff — Jeremy Wright @ 4:44 pm

The whole web has been raving about the new beta from Google (see my rant here).

So, in keeping with being a fun and sharing community I figured I’d post the JavaScript that powers this beast behind the scenes. I’ve spaced it out (since Google removed everything extraneous, and I do mean everything, in favour of reducing the bandwidth requirements).

Anyways, I haven’t dissected the code yet, but here it is. Enjoy!

One Response to “The Code Behind Google Scholar”

  1. Vinnie Garcia says:
    December 11th, 2004 at 10:59 am

    Right off the top of my head, I can discern:
    * Event catching code.
    * Keyboard input catching code. (i.e. catching the control key in combination with other letters)
    * XMLHttp requests (nothing new, they started this with GMail).
    * CSS rule changes.
    * Some kind of autocomplete text field function.

    I went to http://scholar.google.com though and didn’t see anything that would use this scripting (used IE6 and Firefox). Am I missing something?