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Comment by samgro | Hacker News Reader

Can anyone explain why 'United States' could possibly be an autocomplete result for 'CA'? I am staring at United States and just can't see a 'C' anywhere... have I totally lost it?

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Funny enough, I already proposed the same problem and solution with a blog post and sample code for "Re-thinking the State Dropdown with Autocompletion" back in May. Same issues applied, but there was at least some feedback on reddit and optional changes.

http://skookum.com/blog/re-thinking-the-state-dropdown-with-...

http://www.reddit.com/r/Design/comments/h37gb/rethinking_the...

    My blog post links to jsbin sample source so feel free
    to optimize it with all of your proposed fixes.

http://jsbin.com/oxifa3/18/

United States of AmeriCA

For the same reason 'sco' and 'eng' both autocomplete to 'United Kingdom'.

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