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I simply typed the letter 'b' into the box and it reloaded with Bank of America. It was fast in doing so, but not what I wanted. I agree it is an interesting concept, though.

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by typing 'b' into the box it will look for the most relevant search with something starting with b. That means statistically 'bank of america' is the most searched term for users who starts with a letter 'b' in the US. Psykomatic search as you type so it will filter little by little the results until you get to your target. ;-) But there are chances your reach it before you finished typing.

If the suggestion is not what you wanted you just need to press enter to override the search.

Maybe I wasn't clear in my report. I was trying to type the word 'birds' but it opened bank of america before I could type any more and refreshed without the search bar. Effectively, I couldn't search for any word starting with a b after that because it would load instantly.

oh i see! That's rather unfortunate. Some websites steal the keyboard focus or have iframe buster that swallow the whole page.

I didn't find an elegant solution in order to avoid this yet. In the meantime, please consider the site as a proof of concept and try with an other letter ;-)

Hi runaway. It took me a while to figure this out but i manage to bypass frame busters. Please have a look again. Bank of America is one of the few exceptions where you won't be able to browse it directly (and that's good because a banking website is supposed to be secure! Although there is no bad intent with psykomatic this technic is sometimes used for spoofing! So thumbs up to them) but you can still click on the thumbnail to browse the page and it won't break the search to 'birds' anymore ;-)

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