Ooh! I had the same idea about providing contextual information. But you executed on it. This is a wonderful tool that I'd use. All the best. Keep improving it.
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#42First, it's using duckduckgo and second it only search a single term not a phrase, so instead of 'global warming', you get 'global' and 'warming'. But this is a great tool nonetheless.
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#43This is really cool and I can definitely see it being useful once the kinks are worked out.
Without repeating most of the feedback given already, I’ve noticed that it picks up too many pointless words. I’d suggest making it more selective with the words picked out to be relevant. Quality over quantity.
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#44In Firefox 16.0.1 on Linux, if I type a letter after the pre-existing text then the browser opens a tab that I had previously closed. Works fine on Chromium.
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#45It might be useful to show relevant content from my local system on things that I've written already, like maybe notes from a project, or excerpts from email.
Writing code, similar suggestion, showing other code, requirements, design, etc.
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#46An interesting idea, but it comes up with really, really useless suggestion -- I don't think anybody needs to be told what don't is, west may be a cardinal direction but 'in the west we enjoy' does not refer to particular side of a compass. Also for some reason it blinks with 1. AD is a year (I did write the word one, but it really shouldn't blink).
I see it as an interface demo, not a search results demo.
obviously you would connect it to the best search results at your disposal. that's a different problem entirely.
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#47I wrote a text with "German constitution" and now it's stuck in a loop fetching the information to "Basic Law for the Federal Republic of Germany".
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#48I just pushed an update that gives better results and fixes a few of the many bugs.
Thank you everyone for the feedback!
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#49Great job! I encourage you to continue improving it. I pasted a Paul Graham essay and the results were telling: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp1.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp2.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp3.png https://dl.dropbox.com/u/315/random_pics/nlp4.png In short, the results aren't relevant at all -- either to the author or to his audience. (The third screensh…
Another test case: I pasted a couple paragraphs of John Gruber's Kindle review in there, and it shows me (only) "Fleetwood Mac" (derived from the phrase "my Mac"), and "I Love" (the country music song, from the sentence "I love glowing screens").
It skipped terms that seem to me much more obvious links, like "iPhone", "iPad", "TiVo", "ATM", "Kindle", "credit card", "supermarket", or "e-ink".
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#50how does the NLP work for this?