one or more associated terms the method includes receiving a query input from a user directed at identifying the desired item the query input comprises one or more characters input by the user on the text input device as each character of the query input is received from the user a group of items having one or more terms matching the characters received thus far of the query input is dynamically identified the items in this group of items are ordered based on relevance values of the terms matching the characters and on the number of characters of the query input used in identifying the group of items identification of the group of items as ordered is transmitted to the user to be displayed on a device operated by the user application_number US 24643205 A description although many of the examples illustrated herein concern a television viewer searching for television content items and television channels the concepts set forth in these examples are not limited to searching for television content items and channels in general these concepts can apply to processing search requests in a variety of environments in which particular data items or content is sought in response to a user query briefly.