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4 pointsandrewtbham15 comments

http://www.searchstream.co

Search Stream is a social search engine. It's a search engine that has an integrated social bookmarking and notes section. it use your search terms as the tags.

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The UI is not intuitive. You need some messages that help the user navigate and use the site effectively. Right now I m just clicking around trying to make sense of it. (you could include messages with a "Dont show this again" option)

thanks for the feedback.... the messages with don't show again is a great idea.

what part is not intuitive? the search engine? the blog part? the integration of the two?

It took me 60 seconds or so of blind clicking around before I even realised what the site did, and this was after reading the description on this post.

Maybe include some information on the front page describing how the service works. If you want to go all out link to a video demonstration of it working or a quick walk through.

the video is a great idea. i agree... it's a big problem explaining the site's functionality.

Here is a good example... where you get an idea how it might be useful

http://searchstream.co/index.php?search=mp3+arcade+fire+subu...

it's a link to download the arcade fires new album, much more useful than the spam in google's results.

I can't seem to add more than 3 bookmarks.

Also you should have a short url that I can tweet/email to someone else that will load up the bookmarks I saved. This would be helpful if I was trying to help someone find information.

ok i will change that.

they are being added, but they don't show on main page. if you click more results you can see them. and you can see them on the blog.

I didn't notice the more results at first glance and I doubt many other people would have either.

I would suggest expanding the box to show all the users saved results for that search. If you are committed to keeping it limited to 3 results I would suggest moving the "more results" link to a more prominent position under the links and possibly showing a counter next to it so it looks like "$num_links more results".

The idea about the number is a good one. i will add that. i will also try to make it more prominent... great idea.

if you click "More resutls" you get this:

http://searchstream.co/index.php?search=cats&ss=1

also, if you click your "username" you get this:

http://searchstream.co/profile.php?user_id=450

Why would you not buy searchstream.com for this? Is it not worth it? I just went to it and it is just a parked page.

how do you suggest i go about that? i emailed the company that owns it, and haven't heard anything. i also bought that stupid thing on godaddy that tries to grab it, to no avail. it was recently renewed.

I think that's all you really can do.

clickable: http://www.searchstream.co

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