Heh. I love how the techcrunch comments are mostly retarded. Almost zero constructive criticism so far - but you should definitely get a deutber involved once you can pay him to appeal to idiots like that...
Whoa. I meant designer up there not "deutber" (silly iPhone), kinda ironic given I was talking about retarded comments...
And you're right about engagement, for something as mass market as a search engine, maybe techcrunch is the right place to get attention just not advice. :)
"... a start-up that wants to make it easier for you to find what it is that you are looking for on the Internet.
... quicker and easier for people to find what they want on the Internet."
My only gripe with DuckDuckgo is their use of highlighting. The results do not need to be highlighted on hover. I know this is the current trend in webdesign, but to me that kind of highlighting just becomes a distraction.
Interesting. I did this for two reasons. 1) To give a much bigger clickable area bc some people really have a difficult time clicking on things, and over time it should shave off time for anyone once discovered you can click anywhere. 2) For keyboard shortcuts, so you know where you are. Of course, there are alternatives for #2, but I didn't find anything as good.
Looks mildly useful but I think it would be really interesting to use the context from WikiPedia to enhance the web results. Dunno if anyone does this.
I'm doing this currently in a # of ways, e.g. the related topics on the top right and messing with the Yahoo BOSS results (under the human powered results) using information from the Wikipedia topic. I'm of course very interested in ideas for how to do more.
