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Suggestion: Start loading more results when I'm scrolling already. No need to display some text saying I should scroll. It should just work.
Your privacy is of the outmost importance... You probably meant to say utmost . Outmost could imply a lesser importance or the complete opposite if read into too much.
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A homegrown crawler is used but most search results are interspersed with existing search engine results.
Do you really do your own crawling for purposes other than image retrieval? Is it really any good? I highly doubt that your queries are primarily coming from your own engine. The results are too good. It has good ranking, spelling correction, super large indices, and is fast. For example searching "GTGACCTTGGGCAAGTTACTTAACCTCTCTGTGCCTCAGTTTCCTCATCTGTAAAATGGGGATAATA" works even though it only occurs on a few pages and…
oh man. My absolute favorite assignment in undergrad computer science classes involved searching ~50GB of compressed text files containing protein sequences, to see how many times "ATG" or something occurred.
It was a ton of fun. Minimum requirements were to get the correct counts. Then it turned in to a competition to see who could make the fastest solution. You had like 8 machines at your disposal, each with the full dataset, to distribute whatever you wanted.
I think we did it in 3 languages or so (java, erlang, something else...).
(nope, I don't have weird cookies in my browser and it was an incognito session anyway)
Jesus Christ, though... I searched for "dog" and I'm getting "dog fucks teen porn video" with porn videos among the most relevant results... (nope, I don't have weird cookies in my browser and it was an incognito session anyway)
I have changed the default safe search setting to Strict.
The clickable suggestions at the top are an awesome idea. It's an improvement from having to start typing again to get suggestions.
Overall, this looks polished and well-designed. Competition in the search engine space is still sorely needed.
Jesus Christ, though... I searched for "dog" and I'm getting "dog fucks teen porn video" with porn videos among the most relevant results... (nope, I don't have weird cookies in my browser and it was an incognito session anyway)
Wow, that sucks. Never had anything like that happen during testing. Sorry about that. I have changed the default safe search setting to Strict.
The link is gone, now—good job, I think it's a safer choice.
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I'm afraid not. It's the major differentiator, otherwise it'd be the same as everything else out there.
Are you testing the value or user demand for that feature? I agree with the GP. Screenshots reduce information density, increase bandwidth (load time), and for me take even longer to visually parse than a text result. That is, they interfere with what I consider to be the most important things I need from a search engine. Having screenshots populate over time as they load moves my eyes around the page and acts as a d…
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Do you really do your own crawling for purposes other than image retrieval? Is it really any good? I highly doubt that your queries are primarily coming from your own engine. The results are too good. It has good ranking, spelling correction, super large indices, and is fast. For example searching "GTGACCTTGGGCAAGTTACTTAACCTCTCTGTGCCTCAGTTTCCTCATCTGTAAAATGGGGATAATA" works even though it only occurs on a few pages and…
Totally unrelated: oh man. My absolute favorite assignment in undergrad computer science classes involved searching ~50GB of compressed text files containing protein sequences, to see how many times "ATG" or something occurred. It was a ton of fun. Minimum requirements were to get the correct counts. Then it turned in to a competition to see who could make the fastest solution. You had like 8 machines at your disposa…