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Google Code-in 2014 FOSSASIA

Create an Autocomplete Text Box Using Elasticsearch

completed by: AW

mentors: Andun Sameera

Elasticsearch is a flexible and powerful open source, distributed, real-time search and analytics engine.

Student need to research and find a way to create an autocomplete text box in a web page using Elasticsearch.  When a data-set is given, the most suitable one should be suggested when user types in a test box (As Google does).

Initial task will be writing an article in your blog about the steps to do this. Depending on the time taken for the research you can decide about doing PoC or not. One who do the PoC will have much advantage.

 

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Useful Links

http://www.elasticsearch.org/overview/

http://blog.qbox.io/multi-field-partial-word-autocomplete-in-elasticsearch-using-ngrams

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/13614286/supporting-typeahead-autocomplete-with-elasticsearch