Part of the business requirements for the new site was that there should be a lot of things that go "swish". In the swishy spirit of Web 2.0, we went and implemented the new Google AJAX search API, creating a slick search experience. Users have been spotted doing searches just to watch the page go swish.

The only downside of the AJAX search, in my opinion, was that search results could no longer be linked to. I decided to tackle that today and here's what we have:


http://blogs.salesforce.com/blogs/?q=lead%20management

If you're interested in how it works, I'm simply parsing the URI using javascript, extracting the query parameters and calling the same functions that start the swish.