Wundrbar is the next generation of search (YC Winter 08)
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Wundrbar is the next generation of search (YC Winter 08)
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Re: Wundrbar is the next generation of search (YC Winter 08)
#2Looks great. Personally I love yubnub but I don't think they've taken the idea very far - lets hope wundrbar does. Yubnub has user added scripts which is an advantage though.
Re: Wundrbar is the next generation of search (YC Winter 08)
#3Looks great. Personally I love yubnub but I don't think they've taken the idea very far - lets hope wundrbar does. Yubnub has user added scripts which is an advantage though.
Wundrbar's site says they're a platform and soon hackers will be able to plugin services into the system to be used by anyone. I think we'll see some awesomely clever uses of Wundrbar as its community starts to grow.
Re: Wundrbar is the next generation of search (YC Winter 08)
#4Overall, nice work. It seems to have a lot of potential! It would be cool to be able to use wundrbar in a linux terminal and pipe the results to a Conky (http://conky.sourceforge.net/) window :)
If in doubt about structuring the query, I find its much easier to start by typing in the service name and following up with parameters specified in the feedback box.
Re: Wundrbar is the next generation of search (YC Winter 08)
#5Looks great. Personally I love yubnub but I don't think they've taken the idea very far - lets hope wundrbar does. Yubnub has user added scripts which is an advantage though.
Wundrbar's site says they're a platform and soon hackers will be able to plugin services into the system to be used by anyone. I think we'll see some awesomely clever uses of Wundrbar as its community starts to grow.
That'll be great. One thing I've noticed about yubnub is that I don't have to think about listing the commands because you know most search engines will be in there and the alias easily guessable. Yubnub does basically stop at forming search queries though.
Re: Wundrbar is the next generation of search (YC Winter 08)
#6This could be very cool.
I am trying out the firefox search box (http://www.wundrbar.com/static/extras). The default search is still google so I lose nothing and potentially gain a lot. Bring on the plugins!
Re: Wundrbar is the next generation of search (YC Winter 08)
#7One thing people don't want to do is have to memorize a syntax just to use a search engine. A lot of people have trouble with Google as it is. I realize that the idea is to augment traditional search engines' capabilities (so that people will have less trouble), but it's going to have to be easy for non-hackers to catch on to it. The learning curve has to be shallow or the average user is going to give up on it. That being said I really like the way it tells you what it thinks you mean as you type though, and definitely think there is potential for this type of thing.
Re: Wundrbar is the next generation of search (YC Winter 08)
#8It would be cool to have this integrated into Firefox's address bar (I know the wikipedia trick already is).
Re: Wundrbar is the next generation of search (YC Winter 08)
#9This could be very cool. I am trying out the firefox search box ( http://www.wundrbar.com/static/extras ). The default search is still google so I lose nothing and potentially gain a lot. Bring on the plugins!
The search box version doesn't show the previews, but the Firefox toolbar does the trick!
Re: Wundrbar is the next generation of search (YC Winter 08)
#10It would be cool to have this integrated into Firefox's address bar (I know the wikipedia trick already is).
Right click on the wundrbar search box and select 'add a keyword for this search'. Then you can just type 'keyword' in the firefox address bar.
Edit: This doesn't work with wundrbar for some reason.