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Recently deprecated http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537634(VS.85).aspx
Ironically now showing up in other browsers own extensions.
Reasons for failure:
* distrust of Microsoft inventions in the browser
* incomplete implementation strategy based on javascript instead of custom expression parser
* security issues because of using javascript instead of a custom expression parser
Hmmm feature... not really. I did have a website that pulled multiple RSS feeds (thousands) and then parsed each entry matching it to others that it had seen before. It could then show you what was popular at any moment on the web, with the ability to see what the article was linked to, and what they were linked to. It showed some interesting things like how a website was effected by something happening on the world…
not knowing how the producers of the RSS feeds would fee If I understand what you are saying then I don't think there would be any. It sounds like a neat project, where can we take a look?
Should be how they would feel about it.
Its somewhat discontinued. I may spin it up again someday, as everything is there minus the database with data. If I ever do, I will post it on HN for people to have a look.
EDIT - I will have a go at spinning it up tonight actually. It should be pretty easy to do in theory.
I guess it'd be this entire website (visual amazon search): http://bigbooksearch.com/ Reason for failure? Google doesn't index search results...
Like another commenter pointed out you will need to create static pages for the search engines to find & index. You can do this by creating them automatically from the last x number of searches, if you were able to aggregate some other sources into the engine you could create custom landing pages showing all results rather than people clicking straight off to Amazon & having no dedicated page for each book title.
http://wunbar.com Quick and simple to make, thought I could make some money on referral fees, but went nowhere. Failure, I suppose: browsers can do the same thing, with a little setup; and, more importantly, people seem to have a preference to navigate to each of these sites and search them directly.
Would be fairly good to be able to search Wikipedia by typing w: in the URL bar.
Chicken/egg problem with reaching critical mass. My plan was/is to grow it organically with long tail keywords once Google starts indexing all the pages. But they haven't done that yet because the site doesn't have enough incoming links to warrant indexing 1000 pages (another chicken/egg problem :)
http://wunbar.com Quick and simple to make, thought I could make some money on referral fees, but went nowhere. Failure, I suppose: browsers can do the same thing, with a little setup; and, more importantly, people seem to have a preference to navigate to each of these sites and search them directly.
Have you thought about integrating these similar features into Chrome via a plugin? Would be fairly good to be able to search Wikipedia by typing w: in the URL bar.
Preferences -> Basics -> Manage (Next to Default Search)
http://wunbar.com Quick and simple to make, thought I could make some money on referral fees, but went nowhere. Failure, I suppose: browsers can do the same thing, with a little setup; and, more importantly, people seem to have a preference to navigate to each of these sites and search them directly.
nobody searches with capital letters, so hitting the shift key to make a ":" is a pretty big cost. Just use "g ", and detect prefixes you know; it's much faster and less awkward to use.
CSS Expressions. Aka Dynamic Properties. Recently deprecated http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms537634(VS.85).aspx Ironically now showing up in other browsers own extensions. Reasons for failure: * distrust of Microsoft inventions in the browser * incomplete implementation strategy based on javascript instead of custom expression parser * security issues because of using javascript instead of a custom expressi…
Always thought of them as a halfway point between pure CSS and Netscape's idea of implementing stylesheets in Javascript.
Ooh, I've got a couple. I'll just use one for an example though: http://college.mychances.net/tools/college-choice-matrix.php This tool is based on ~25,000 college applications and shows you the relative preference for each college. It's not based on direct matchups but instead based on an Elo point system, so that all colleges can be ranked along one dimension (essentially, revealed student preference). It's rarely…
I would have loved a tool that that would let me enter a GPA and SAT score and then using actual data could tell me that 500 students with comparable stats (like +/- 0.1 for GPA and +/- 50 for SAT) applied to school X last year and 380 were admitted.
Most of them don't have an idea what the data means. It's over their heads, so we missed the mark audience wise.