you guys are doing interesting stuff. i think your interface needs a lot of work. i'm not a designer myself, so apologies for the lack of constructive criticism (as a user, it's prolly wrong anyway). i can say that i just felt overwhelmed and hard to read....i didn't want to read the results...maybe too wide....
anyway, i wanted to point out carrot2, which is a clustering engine with a beautiful and engaging interface. i really like the carrot2 website. gives me good vibes.
i have to be honest, though. when it comes down to it i just use google. like someone else said, when you're searching for error messages....
otherwise, i'm usually searching for something easy that presumably everyone gets, and certainly google gets so why do anything different.
occasionally i have "un-google-able" phrases (!), either because the words i'm searching on are super overloaded and common, or because i have a vague notion of what i'm looking for. in those cases, i try to remember to use carrot2, and possibly duckduck....but yeah.....would be nice to have an extension that identified when i was having search trouble and automatically did a look up in other search engines for me....
anyway, i wanted to point out carrot2, which is a clustering engine with a beautiful and engaging interface. i really like the carrot2 website. gives me good vibes.
i have to be honest, though. when it comes down to it i just use google. like someone else said, when you're searching for error messages....
otherwise, i'm usually searching for something easy that presumably everyone gets, and certainly google gets so why do anything different.
occasionally i have "un-google-able" phrases (!), either because the words i'm searching on are super overloaded and common, or because i have a vague notion of what i'm looking for. in those cases, i try to remember to use carrot2, and possibly duckduck....but yeah.....would be nice to have an extension that identified when i was having search trouble and automatically did a look up in other search engines for me....