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It is making some revenue already. Thank you for the link.

Get well soon, Steve.

I love it - great work

I have no problem having my search history, email and analytics at Google.

I don't think this is surprising - the top management seems more interested in building OSs and social networks. Search doesn't seem like their highest priority anymore.

I can confirm that many corporations still use IE6 for some reason. It's quite ironic how much the value security, but on the other hand let their employees use a 10 year old browser.

You can find both Fugue and Fatcow icons + many more here: http://www.iconfinder.com/browse/alphabetic

Good point - limits sometimes gives very interesting results.

Can someone tell Reddit about this offer?

Me too - it looks like a handy little tool.

It would be nice if I could share the mockup without creating an account. This little tool makes snippets shareable by giving all snippets a unique public url: http://write.fm/ymg5p79

Looks interesting although I like a more minimalistic design. Great logos!

I fixed the bug - it should be working again.

Yeah, you can compare the results here:

http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=computer

http://www.google.com/images?hl=en&safe=off&biw=1342...

It is only ad-based revenue at the moment and with 14MM per month it gives an ok revenue. I'm planning to add premium content in the coming months.

Would you consider paying for high quality icons?

It is not supported but I think it's a great idea. Perhaps doing something like 99designs, where jobs are posted and then icon designers can choose to upload their work. The designer who is chosen will win the "auction".

I don't think you will find all three present anywhere in the world: smart people, tech and unemployment

I did but they didn't answer. I really think it's a waste of time. Even though they have some users I can't see any effect on the growth on Iconfinder.com

I have chosen to focus on delivering the best service and hope the users will notice.

I have made a blog post related to the choice of metaphors for icons: http://www.iconfinder.com/blog/4/

It launched 2007, but it really took off in 2009. I'm still in school so I haven't had that much time to work on it. I'm doing ok from ads now and it is growing fast, so when I finish school in 2 months, I'm going to work on monetizing.

You can see the growth compared to Dropbox.com and Ycombinator.com: http://icnf.me/brcjhH

It searches for both "sword" and "%sword%" (with wildcards in both ends). It ranks results with exact match for "sword" higher than wildcard matches and what you are seeing are icons with the keyword "pasSWORD" since it hits "%sword%"

Not at the moment - but it's coming soon.

No narwhal icons either - sorry to let you down.

You can search the different icon sets - just go to iconfinder.com/browse

When you have found a great icon set you can add a search term to the search query e.g. http://www.iconfinder.com/search/?q=iconset:duesseldorf+star

It works like Google when using the filtype: or site: keywords.

This is not just a problem for iconfinder.com but for icons and free web design stuff in general.

Thanks. That's not a bad idea.

Thanks. Categories are coming within a month.

Thanks, man. I love your tool and I'm happy to provide you with icons.

Every week I add 10 new icon sets so the icon library is growing. I have chosen not to let the users upload icons directly to make sure the quality is high.

Thank you for the feedback. The last row is always a bit of a headache. Google Images an iStockphoto solves the problem by having results from the next page shown to fill out the last row. So you'll get duplicate results in the search results - maybe that is the best solution.

Adding vector version of the icons are definitely next step content-wise.

The account for designers is a feature that is planned and coming within 2 months.

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