Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later

Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2

#1

Post by taxonomyman » Tue, May 01, 2012, 10:22 PM UTC

Thx to everyone for overwhelming support and feedback. We lauched V2 today on Day 2.

______Version 2 additions: (ordered by demand)

-Open search browser plug in

-Settings to Add sites (like Wikipedia.com back in)

-Settings to exlude even more sites

-favicon added

-Quick links to alter 'removal slices'

-Settings for Adult filtering

-Removed sites now in alpha sort order

______Quick stats:

171,686 Total Unique Searches

148,477 Absolute Unique Visitors

420,963 Pageviews

peaked at 1,500 concurrent users

+plus:

Got some HN Love

Got some Reddit Love

Got some Techcrunch Love

Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2
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Re: Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2

#2

Post by taxonomyman » Tue, May 01, 2012, 10:29 PM UTC

Thx to everyone for overwhelming support and feedback. We lauched V2 today on Day 2.

______Version 2 additions: (ordered by demand)

-Open search browser plug in

-Settings to Add sites (like Wikipedia.com back in)

-Settings to exlude even more sites

-favicon added

-Quick links to alter 'removal slices'

-Settings for Adult filtering

-Removed sites now in alpha sort order

______Quick stats:

171,686 Total Unique Searches

148,477 Absolute Unique Visitors

420,963 Pageviews

peaked at 1,500 concurrent users

+plus:

Got some HN Love

Got some Reddit Love

Got some Techcrunch Love

Re: Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2

#3

Post by pathdependent » Tue, May 01, 2012, 10:31 PM UTC

I'm really curious to see how -- or, for you're sake, if -- the traffic decays. A front-page view on hackernews will generate that level of traffic with an exponential decay over the next few days. That being said, searches are different from views, in an exciting way for you.

I used it and bookmarked it for potential discovery searches in the future. It's a very interesting idea.

Re: Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2

#4

Post by taxonomyman » Tue, May 01, 2012, 10:39 PM UTC

pathdependent wrote: post #3

I'm really curious to see how -- or, for you're sake, if -- the traffic decays. A front-page view on hackernews will generate that level of traffic with an exponential decay over the next few days. That being said, searches are different from views , in an exciting way for you. I used it and bookmarked it for potential discovery searches in the future. It's a very interesting idea.

Hard to say. The goal was to execute on an idea which seems to be both useful and unique. Get feedback, reiterate and improve. Rinse and repeat.

Re: Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2

#5

Post by riskish » Tue, May 01, 2012, 11:14 PM UTC

is it using Google?

Re: Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2

#6

Post by sidman » Tue, May 01, 2012, 11:27 PM UTC

I searched a few things, one being the project im working on now and i discovered very interesting things that lead me to book mark the results. One of the results even made me laugh and one lead me to some information i had no idea about ! Its an interesting project and i book marked your URL to discover things i normally might not so great job. I guess just like the physical world the deeper and deeper you go the more interesting and weird are the results.

BTW have you written your own crawlers and indexers ?

Re: Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2

#7

Post by hello_asdf » Tue, May 01, 2012, 11:50 PM UTC

pathdependent wrote: post #3

I'm really curious to see how -- or, for you're sake, if -- the traffic decays. A front-page view on hackernews will generate that level of traffic with an exponential decay over the next few days. That being said, searches are different from views , in an exciting way for you. I used it and bookmarked it for potential discovery searches in the future. It's a very interesting idea.

I wrote a quick search addon for Firefox, so I plan on continuing to use it.

Re: Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2

#8

Post by hello_asdf » Tue, May 01, 2012, 11:53 PM UTC

taxonomyman wrote: post #2

Thx to everyone for overwhelming support and feedback. We lauched V2 today on Day 2. ______Version 2 additions: (ordered by demand) -Open search browser plug in -Settings to Add sites (like Wikipedia.com back in) -Settings to exlude even more sites -favicon added -Quick links to alter 'removal slices' -Settings for Adult filtering -Removed sites now in alpha sort order ______Quick stats: 171,686 Total Unique Searches…

Any chance you could add in some features of DuckDuckGo regarding privacy? Examples could be not tracking search history, not sending a referrer, etc.

Re: Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2

#9

Post by taxonomyman » Tue, May 01, 2012, 11:55 PM UTC

riskish wrote: post #5

is it using Google?

Bing. We are working one some custom crawling/indexing to enhance.

Re: Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2

#10

Post by taxonomyman » Tue, May 01, 2012, 11:57 PM UTC

hello_asdf wrote: post #8

taxonomyman wrote: post #2

Thx to everyone for overwhelming support and feedback. We lauched V2 today on Day 2. ______Version 2 additions: (ordered by demand) -Open search browser plug in -Settings to Add sites (like Wikipedia.com back in) -Settings to exlude even more sites -favicon added -Quick links to alter 'removal slices' -Settings for Adult filtering -Removed sites now in alpha sort order ______Quick stats: 171,686 Total Unique Searches…

Any chance you could add in some features of DuckDuckGo regarding privacy? Examples could be not tracking search history, not sending a referrer, etc.

Added to TODO list.