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http://wunbar.com http://wunbar.com Quick and simple to make, thought I could make some money on referral fees, but went nowhere. Failure, I suppose: browsers
by timae 16y ago
http://wunbar.com http://wunbar.com
Quick and simple to make, thought I could make some money on referral fees, but went nowhere.
Failure, I suppose: browsers can do the same thing, with a little setup; and, more importantly, people seem to have a preference to navigate to each of these sites and search them directly.
- idoh 16y agoI like this site. I feel that having to type in the prefixes might be a blocker for the normal crowd. Have you tried some different UIs to make picking the service happen?
- edo 16y agohttp://spudu.com http://spudu.com is the same app with a different UI
- duck 16y agoI like that idea and use DDG's bang feature all the time.
- thegyppo 16y agoHave you thought about integrating these similar features into Chrome via a plugin? Would be fairly good to be able to search Wikipedia by typing w: in the URL bar.
- davidalln 16y agoYou can already do this in Chrome. For example, I hit ' to search Wikipedia and hit ; to I'm Feeling Lucky Google. Preferences -> Basics -> Manage (Next to Default Search)
- Hovertruck 16y agoOn top of that, most pages with a functioning search get recognized by Chrome, so for example if I type "e" and hit tab, Chrome lets me search "en.wikipedia.org".
- Groxx 16y agoI set something like this up myself with a Safari plugin. One thing I learned rather quickly: nobody searches with capital letters, so hitting the shift key to make a ":" is a pretty big cost. Just use "g <search>", and detect prefixes you know; it's much faster and less awkward to use.
- emilsedgh 16y agoKonqueror has this feature since ages. gg:foo for searching foo in google ggi for google images and much more, like imdb, even php for searching in php docs. And thats the most awesome feature ever.