Good work! Impressive results and good speed. Congrates...
I don't like the name that much. Your project is promising, I suggest to invest into better name while you are not that well know.
Anyway, you are great.
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?
#42Pretty good results; I love the minimal interface (although it is a bit childish
Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?
#43Impressed 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.
I like the ajax loading. Internet marketing types will like the ability to see the first X pages all on one page without having to set some parameter (as in google)
Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?
#44I really need to see the URLs for hits.
Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?
#45A vanity search turns up nothing, therefore my ego won't let me use your search engine. ;) In all seriousness, I like the way you're going, but I didn't like the way the results are laid out - it just looked sloppy to me.
I definitely agree that the results should be more structured. Also the page should be aligned left because that's what people are used to. Maybe something like this: http://pixtures.s3.amazonaws.com/duck.jpg
The search button is way too big. The text is too big. Shrink everything and fit more information on one page.
Maybe include some "Web links" on every page. Then right align the "More topics" and "More Web links" to the right so people know they're not ordinary links, but instead offer additional functionality.
Overall, I really like it. It looks like you lift a lot of information and links from wikipedia. I think this is a great idea.
Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?
#46Not bad at all. I guess you're scraping Wikipedia for a lot of the disambiguation descriptions.
The hits in a disambiguated topic after the first page need some work. Many in the wrong topics. But still, not bad for a beginning.
I suggest duckduck.com instead of duckduckgo.com.
The flashy logo page might be the only reason some people use it. They'll like the fact that they can show off that they have found a different tool. But that's just a small set of certain types of people. Me, I'd prefer a simple tool that takes up less space and is less flashy.
Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?
#47Impressed 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 like the idea, but I agree that the implementation isn't perfect. I would say the solution isn't to drop the [load more results] thing in favor of pagination, but to improve it.
I can't explain exactly why it is annoying as currently implemented, but it is. Somehow, the more results thing needs to be more "fluid". Maybe make the interface more like regular pagination, but just add the results to the bottom of the same page?
Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?
#48Bug: When searching for articles that redirect to a different article on Wikipedia, the results for the redirected article are displayed.
My search: "NeoSmart Technologies" On Wikipedia this redirects to our main product, "EasyBCD," which is what DuckDuck returned...
But really, really nice ideas going on there, it's very information-centric verses link-centric, sort of like a powerset that works.
Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?
#49Simply amazing. Really. This is so much better than Cuil or a lot of the other BS search engines out there.
The presentation isn't great. So with some improvements in the design and a marketing machine, this could be big.
Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?
#50That's quacktastic.