What motivated you to create this search engine? Google/other search engines did not come up with relevant results?
Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?
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Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?
#12you're not catastrophically bad or slow, unlike some others that have shown up lately. good work on avoiding negative points right off the bat.
if the first page doesn't have what i want, i find myself confused as to what my next course of action should be.
my first reaction to all the ajax stuff is "hey, thats kind of cool" my second reaction is "my expections about what should happen when i move my mouse (mostly nothing) are being violated! help!"
in summary: i think you need to do some real usability studies.
Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?
#13The name consists of three stressed syllables, which is hard to say fluidly. You can't turn it into a verb, like "google". This may cause problems with marketability. I am being totally serious.
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#14I liked it, I think it has very impressive functionality; I think you won't have a problem selling it to some company. The search market is huge and doesn't end at Google.
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#16Highly relevant results for the band I entered, but not enough to make me want to switch from Google.
It's not that you aren't good, it's just that you aren't great- there's nothing here that would make me want to purposefully break a habit formed over the past seven odd years. Namely, using Google.
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#17My random query for "tears of a clown" worked well. How tied is this to the internet? There might be a market in the Enterprise search world if you are managing the index.
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#18Pretty impressive results for the terms I searched for. Unfortunately, the design made me temporarily go blind.
In all seriousness, the name is pretty horrible and I "feel" as if I am using a website, not a tool. Google feels like a tool - I get in an out quickly, it doesn't invade my flow. Your application (and others, like Mahalo) are so visually invasive I would never use them, no matter the results that we returned.
Not really a design thing - although it stems from the design - more like a workflow thing... I dunno, hard to describe.
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#19Impressed so far, but not impressed with the [load more results]->web2.0 spinner I'd rather just have normal pagination there. Seems to give some good results back in a useful way.
I agree, pagination would be much better because then I wouldn't have to scroll to see all of the new results.
Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?
#20What motivated you to create this search engine? Google/other search engines did not come up with relevant results?
Quite simply, I looked at the current state of search and saw a path through which I could add something useful to the space.
There are all sorts of issues with current search, most of which have been discussed on this forum elsewhere. Relevancy is certainly one of them, but there are others too, e.g. spam, clutter, discovery, and UI.