jQuery check on wordchange rather than "change" trigger

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Published on 2011-01-10T17:28:55Z Indexed on 2011/01/10 17:53 UTC
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I have a input that the user types a search parameter into, at the moment i have it on keyup to do a POST ajax request to a PHP script that returns search results. however its firing off 50 billion (not literally) post requests in about 10 seconds (as the user types) which slows the whole experience down. Can i use jQuery to detect a "wordup" rather than "keyup" by detecting the use of the space bar?

Does this make sense?

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