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Firefox plugin extends Google & Wikipedia with "1-Click Web Explorer"

11 points by webzzle 17y ago

thorax 17y ago
Maybe a screenshot or something would help? I'm not grokking what this does (though I may not have my caffeine yet). Edit: Tracked back to the homepage and I have a better idea now. http://www.webzzle.com http://www.webzzle.com
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- webzzle 17y ago
  A screenshot in the Mozilla addon page ?
  - thorax 17y ago
    Yeah, like most other addons do: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6138 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6138 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890
    - webzzle 17y ago
      You're right. I understand what you mean. I'll do it.
webzzle 17y ago
I'm one the founder of Webzzle and I'd like to get as many feedbacks as possible in order to improve Webzzle. We want to build Webzzle with the community.
- timdorr 17y ago
  First off, it needs a much better explanation of what it does. I tried the home page and the addons page. I have no clue what the hell this thing does. It combines Wikipedia and Google results in some way? I don't see how that's relevant. Your current tagline is way too technical and buzzwordy. Explain to me what I'm getting while dumbing it down as much as you can. Example: http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/help.html http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/help.html This presentation is confusing as fuck and waaaaay too verbose. I have to weed through 10 slides of diagrams and explanations to figure out what this thing is about? No thanks! Edit: Actually, what's really missing is a use case or example. Everything's telling me how this is useful and very advanced stuff and how awesome it's supposed to be, but I have no clue how I'd use it and what I would use it for. Both of those questions could be solved by a good demonstration. Usually when you have something as complex as this, examples are the best way to dumb it down and get the point across easily.
  - webzzle 17y ago
    1) We use references and external links brought and qualified by 8.5 millions people (the Wikipedia community). 2) We send more than 20 searches to Google when you post a URL to Webzzle. We examine the results for you, filter and presents the best. It saves time and you get much better quality results. Try to explore from a Linkedin profile page for example. You'll get better Google results for instance. The usual problem we face is that when we explain the tech, people get lost. We try only to speak about the feature. I can tell a lot about the tech. We work on Webzzle since 1999. But it has been hard to bring the Object technology to the users.
    - timdorr 17y ago
      You're still just explaining the process, but not what the results actually are. What do I use this for? What are these results? I understand that you're pooling Wikipedia and Google together, but I don't get at all how that benefits me. Try to condense it to less than 10 words and in a phrase that describes what I get out of it.
      - webzzle 17y ago
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heed 17y ago
Interesting, I will try this out. But what I'm really looking for in search is the ability to sort results by date (I know you can filter by 'past 24 hours' in google, but the results are not sorted) and simultaneously view in real-time.
- webzzle 17y ago
  The Webzzle technology takes the date into account to rank results. However, we don't provide a filter to select a date range. The 'Relative Energy' levels (used to give a score to a Web resource and a Web user) are time variable.
ynniv 17y ago
I can't figure out how this is supposed to be useful. The website doesn't have data for pages that I've tried it on, and it doesn't seem like I can somehow contribute any... The pomp without substance gives me the feeling that I'm being had. I actually opened up the source code to make sure it isn't doing anything bad to my computer :-/
- webzzle 17y ago
  Webzzle has been initially populated with Wikipedia references and external links. When, there is no data in Webzzle & Wikipedia, we present the enhanced Google results. That avoids you to launch many keywords searches, filter the results and browse the best ones. If you want to contribute, you open an account, put the 'save' button in your browser and save the Web pages using Wikipedia concepts. The saved pages will be in your organizer.
pasbesoin 17y ago
Intriguing, but the Addons page doesn't demonstrate how it works in detail, and the product's website is fairly uninformative to someone using NoScript. I'd suggest that the latter fail more gracefully in the absence of scripting. Edit: Ok, one in from the initial landing page, there is this link, under Publisher Tools, which has some more detail: http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/publisher_tools.html http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/publisher_tools.html
- webzzle 17y ago
  This slideshow explains how it works. You need scripts to use Webzzle. http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/help.html http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/help.html
  - pasbesoin 17y ago
    I may just be a bit of an antique ;-), but I like to be able to do an initial evaluation of a website / product without enabling scripting. If I'm interested enough and develop a basic trust, I may enable scripting and investigate further. I'm not criticizing the use of scripting in the product or its website. I'd just like to be able to form a bit more of an impression without needing to enable it. I like the concept of merging Wikipedia and Google results (and/or other combinations). I've been growing increasingly dissatisfied with direct search engine results; it's taking longer and longer to find the decent content within all the noise.
    - webzzle 17y ago
      We need scripts because of the Ajax autocomplete feature and because of the concepts selection mechanism to build an object query. That's all. Thanks for your comment. With a growing community (lke the one of Wikipedia), Webzzle can bring more and more value everyday to our quest of knowledge.
webzzle 17y ago
Webzzle is to 'explore' what Google is to 'search'. We all use Google to search but Google is using keywords. It's good when it's the first step of your search process but not convenient when you want to know more from a Web page. What keywords will you select ? At Webzzle, we analyse the Web page from which you want to know more (chen you click 'explore' and send one query to Webzzle (to get Real-Time knowledge from the community) and many queries to Google in order to help you find the best results in 1 click instead of multiples keywords queries by yourself in the Google search interface.

11 points by webzzle 17y ago

Maybe a screenshot or something would help? I'm not grokking what this does (though I may not have my caffeine yet). Edit: Tracked back to the homepage and I have a better idea now. http://www.webzzle.com http://www.webzzle.com

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webzzle 17y ago
A screenshot in the Mozilla addon page ?
- thorax 17y ago
  Yeah, like most other addons do: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6138 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/6138 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/5890
  - webzzle 17y ago
    You're right. I understand what you mean. I'll do it.

webzzle 17y ago

I'm one the founder of Webzzle and I'd like to get as many feedbacks as possible in order to improve Webzzle. We want to build Webzzle with the community.

timdorr 17y ago
First off, it needs a much better explanation of what it does. I tried the home page and the addons page. I have no clue what the hell this thing does. It combines Wikipedia and Google results in some way? I don't see how that's relevant. Your current tagline is way too technical and buzzwordy. Explain to me what I'm getting while dumbing it down as much as you can. Example: http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/help.html http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/help.html This presentation is confusing as fuck and waaaaay too verbose. I have to weed through 10 slides of diagrams and explanations to figure out what this thing is about? No thanks! Edit: Actually, what's really missing is a use case or example. Everything's telling me how this is useful and very advanced stuff and how awesome it's supposed to be, but I have no clue how I'd use it and what I would use it for. Both of those questions could be solved by a good demonstration. Usually when you have something as complex as this, examples are the best way to dumb it down and get the point across easily.
- webzzle 17y ago
  1) We use references and external links brought and qualified by 8.5 millions people (the Wikipedia community). 2) We send more than 20 searches to Google when you post a URL to Webzzle. We examine the results for you, filter and presents the best. It saves time and you get much better quality results. Try to explore from a Linkedin profile page for example. You'll get better Google results for instance. The usual problem we face is that when we explain the tech, people get lost. We try only to speak about the feature. I can tell a lot about the tech. We work on Webzzle since 1999. But it has been hard to bring the Object technology to the users.
  - timdorr 17y ago
    You're still just explaining the process, but not what the results actually are. What do I use this for? What are these results? I understand that you're pooling Wikipedia and Google together, but I don't get at all how that benefits me. Try to condense it to less than 10 words and in a phrase that describes what I get out of it.
    - webzzle 17y ago

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heed 17y ago

Interesting, I will try this out. But what I'm really looking for in search is the ability to sort results by date (I know you can filter by 'past 24 hours' in google, but the results are not sorted) and simultaneously view in real-time.

webzzle 17y ago
The Webzzle technology takes the date into account to rank results. However, we don't provide a filter to select a date range. The 'Relative Energy' levels (used to give a score to a Web resource and a Web user) are time variable.

ynniv 17y ago

I can't figure out how this is supposed to be useful. The website doesn't have data for pages that I've tried it on, and it doesn't seem like I can somehow contribute any... The pomp without substance gives me the feeling that I'm being had. I actually opened up the source code to make sure it isn't doing anything bad to my computer :-/

webzzle 17y ago
Webzzle has been initially populated with Wikipedia references and external links. When, there is no data in Webzzle & Wikipedia, we present the enhanced Google results. That avoids you to launch many keywords searches, filter the results and browse the best ones. If you want to contribute, you open an account, put the 'save' button in your browser and save the Web pages using Wikipedia concepts. The saved pages will be in your organizer.

pasbesoin 17y ago

Intriguing, but the Addons page doesn't demonstrate how it works in detail, and the product's website is fairly uninformative to someone using NoScript. I'd suggest that the latter fail more gracefully in the absence of scripting. Edit: Ok, one in from the initial landing page, there is this link, under Publisher Tools, which has some more detail: http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/publisher_tools.html http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/publisher_tools.html

webzzle 17y ago
This slideshow explains how it works. You need scripts to use Webzzle. http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/help.html http://www.webzzle.com/intl/en/help.html
- pasbesoin 17y ago
  I may just be a bit of an antique ;-), but I like to be able to do an initial evaluation of a website / product without enabling scripting. If I'm interested enough and develop a basic trust, I may enable scripting and investigate further. I'm not criticizing the use of scripting in the product or its website. I'd just like to be able to form a bit more of an impression without needing to enable it. I like the concept of merging Wikipedia and Google results (and/or other combinations). I've been growing increasingly dissatisfied with direct search engine results; it's taking longer and longer to find the decent content within all the noise.
  - webzzle 17y ago
    We need scripts because of the Ajax autocomplete feature and because of the concepts selection mechanism to build an object query. That's all. Thanks for your comment. With a growing community (lke the one of Wikipedia), Webzzle can bring more and more value everyday to our quest of knowledge.

webzzle 17y ago

Webzzle is to 'explore' what Google is to 'search'. We all use Google to search but Google is using keywords. It's good when it's the first step of your search process but not convenient when you want to know more from a Web page. What keywords will you select ? At Webzzle, we analyse the Web page from which you want to know more (chen you click 'explore' and send one query to Webzzle (to get Real-Time knowledge from the community) and many queries to Google in order to help you find the best results in 1 click instead of multiples keywords queries by yourself in the Google search interface.