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Sorry you found this confusing. We show suggestions in greyed out text to encourage new searches for new things you can learn about.

The goal of this search engine is to let users both explore and search for what they need, not just search like what you can do with conventional search engines.




I think it's just a matter of the dominant elements on the page. The thing you searched is in small text beneath the very large search bar so it takes a moment to figure out what is going on. Otherwise very cool, good work!


Is that backed up by anything regarding information retrieval ergonomics, or is it just a "hey lets try this" design decision?




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