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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...

I've nevertheless just tried to engage as much as possible.

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. :)

Hah, I tried to look up the word, and then finally figured you meant debater...

Would be interested if you have any ideas/criticism on design.

"... 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."

Sure uses a lot of words to write a lot of words.

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.

have you looked at getting data from freebase instead of wikipedia?

Indeed. Nothing to show for it yet, but I'm looking at freebase to help power some of the technology in our next major version.

nice. can't wait to the see the next version.

ignore the TC comments - I like your site, and it might well replace Yahoo search for me ...

Yeah, I'd definitely be more interested in comments from people who actually use the site.

here's some thoughts after usage (i've been using it on/off for quite a while)

: I don't LOVE the UI. I don't hate it, it just feels a little too white?

: I do quite a lot of finance searching - I'd love google finance integration.

: could you look up tags on delicious and display those links? I always find delicious superb for nifty content

: can you make the URL a little more obvious? maybe bold or indented -- thats the primary method I use to sort the crap from the non crap results.

: Maybe the related images could go horizontally below the search box? I think that sidebar is awfully cramped.

Thanks!

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