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Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?

#71

Post by Allocator2008 » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 10:34 PM UTC

Are you scraping wikipedia as a "top priority" node set in your search algorithm? Actually not a bad idea. I typed "Alyssa Milano" in there, since I am a HUGE 'Charmed' fan - anyway - that returned me a wiki article, as well as images, and facebook links, basically everything I really would need to know if I were writing a paper on her, including publicity images and so forth, all right there in one result page.Maybe it is just me, but I thought the colour scheme was kind of fun - different anyway - something for a change - I can definitely see people using this at least as a supplement to google! Good work! :-)

Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?

#72

Post by volida » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 10:43 PM UTC

it redirects me to pricegrabber? a serious general search engine would never do that! you lost me...

Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?

#73

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 10:48 PM UTC

epi0Bauqu wrote: post #2

Hi all, I would really appreciate any feedback. Here is some more info: http://duckduckgo.com/about.html

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Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?

#74

Post by plusbryan » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 10:51 PM UTC

walesmd wrote: post #18

Pretty 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 return…

I hear cuil.com is available...

Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?

#75

Post by Fuca » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 10:55 PM UTC

You will need a better design and a hell of PR

Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?

#76

Post by shafqat » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 10:56 PM UTC

AlexRodriguez wrote: post #50

That's quacktastic.

You are funny.

Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?

#77

Post by alien » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 11:05 PM UTC

aren't these google results spit out here (for obscure searches)..

I don't see any attribution..? (e.g. 'swarmware')

at http://www.seekng.com (and my others) I allow explicit selection, and model the SearchProvider (connecting to search results memes in a graph)

Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?

#78

Post by alien » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 11:07 PM UTC

alien wrote: post #77

aren't these google results spit out here (for obscure searches).. I don't see any attribution..? (e.g. 'swarmware') at http://www.seekng.com (and my others) I allow explicit selection, and model the SearchProvider (connecting to search results memes in a graph)

I see, Yahoo, not google (per links)

I'm just curious myself about the legalities

Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?

#79

Post by dmnd » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 11:07 PM UTC

Your logo and red and yellow colour scheme make me think of fast food.

You should add Javascript to make my browser display the URL in the status bar when my mouse hovers over a result.

Re: Ask YC: What do you think of my new search engine?

#80

Post by BlueZeniX » Thu, Sep 25, 2008, 11:10 PM UTC

I searched for poop (didnt have anything meaningful to look for), and got: Aspect-oriented programming, "Post Object-Oriented Programming"

made me laugh.