The website isn't meant to be used for any real utility. What I wanted to demonstrate was just an alternate way to look at search.
I think we've just gotten so used to Google and its millions of results; I wondered, what would happen if I took that all away and presented only just a small handful of results?
Yep however now you type what you want, it works some ajax magic, press tab to activate the keyboard shortcuts then hit enter which takes you to the first result.
I use it without thinking about it now and I don't need to touch the mouse bearing in mind I'm on the keyboard typing the search.
I'm trying it myself, just putting things out there and saying "to hell with it" because, ultimately, unshitifying things is Zeno's paradox kind of work; you're never really done. And, really, it's probably better than you think anyway.
I think he's referring to the discrete-motion paradox - that you can never reach the other side of the room because you must first go halfway, and before that you must first go 1/4 of the way, and before that...
It's not the greatest analogy in the world, but it sort of works in that it illustrates the fractal-like nature of bug-squashing.
Are they charging you for requests (over the initial allotment of 5,000 requests per month), if this is done via Bing Web Search API in the Azure Marketplace?
iI felt the sameway . I just used various apis for unscatter.com you may want to see about getting access to the blekko api if you keep playing with it. iI use some of the slash tags they offer for some search views, it's real easy to work with.
When the search term is one character long (e.g., a single quote, or an ampersand, or whatever), it would be nice to get the corresponding Wikipedia page if it exists. It's pretty much impossible to google for special chars.
It is unfortunate that doing so takes you away from the site (I imagine the basic use case right now is to type in a bunch of queries to see what it displays.)
Ideally, it would show Google search results in an iframe, although I imagine that is against their TOS. Maybe just linking to Google search results would be a better experience.
This is by far the thing I've upvoted on "new" that I'm most surprised reached the top page. I think this is borderline definitive proof that PG is right: Google is vulnerable. I mean, just the simplicity of the results has Hacker News excited, I just think 2 years ago we wouldn't have found this the least bit interesting.
Well done. I like how answers are given as tiles. Its a good experiment to try with nuuton. I do not like, however, that you did not serve too much from the classic search UI/UX.
Shoot me an email: my username [at] nuuton [dot] com
It keeps telling me an apostrophe is the number 39.
No, but seriously it looks neat. What are the websites it queries for results? I've seen Yahoo! and Wikipedia so far.
'Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, Google Answers (lawl), Quora, Stackoverflow.'
Stackoverflow comes up when you do coding questions, yahoo answers when you do just random questions. Although, Quora doesn't appear as often as I like. I need to do a bit of tweaking.
Otherwise, surprisingly useful for something so simple. If you could tone down/up result sources and it had more (e.g. show me nothing from yahoo answers, more from stackoverflow), i would concievably use this instead of the goog for most things.
Like many people most of my googles are "wiki blah"
Chrome and Firefox can do this too and it's easy so I don't get the reliance on DuckDuckGo for it.
In Firefox you go to the wikipedia page, right click on the search text box, then "Add Keyword for this Search". In Chrome, you do the same thing, right click on that search box and then click "Add as Search Engine".
You can add whatever keyword you want, like "w" and from then on, all searches with "w " as a prefix will go straight to Wikipedia's results.
I have shortcuts defined for Wikipedia, Stackoverflow, Amazon.com, IMDB, a dictionary for my native language, my personal Gmail, my work Gmail, Google Translate and Hacker News.
For instance for Hacker News, I often want to search for articles I've read here, not to mention it's a valuable resource for getting other people's opinions on certain subjects. So instead of searching on Google for:
some topic site:news.ycombinator.com
I defined a prefix for this search "hn", and so I simply type "hn some topic". You can't use the shortcut for this though, you'll have to go to Settings and manually add a search engine setting.
For Google Translate, I basically type "enro phrase", for translating "phrase" from English to Romanian, while I type "roen phrase" for translating "phrase" from Romanian to English.
Hi, since there seems to be a lot of interest, I figured I could answer all of them at once in a blog post which I'll post sometime tomorrow.
To answer your question though, the backend is running on Python. There's no particular reason. I just find it a lot easier to script with. It's running on fCGI with nginx on the backend server. On the front is PHP... which is served through up by apache. I find it easier for me to do $_GET, hack around forms really fast and also just echo Javascript everywhere.
It's nice to think of a search engine as something that can actually be tuned to a desired output. Nice to see. You're absolutely right that we have come to think of this problem as solved, and it isn't.
Neatly done... It's a great hack in 3 hours... Would love to learn about it, if the code is open sourced.
Only one suggestion, results could be listed neatly. That's it.
I think we've just gotten so used to Google and its millions of results; I wondered, what would happen if I took that all away and presented only just a small handful of results?