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Yes it matters. Autocomplete (either local or 100ms network database lookup) is a whole other layer of fascinating computer science+engineering.



It does not matter for the purposes of this project. You could go even further back and look at how the browser renders the location bar, how the OS starts the browser, how the machine boots the OS.... None of those matter, even if they are interesting in their own right.




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