Some highlights:
- Condoleezza Rice – Notice the side bar fading in. Scroll down a litte, and notice the posts BY and the posts ABOUT. No else one has anything like that
- Citation Search – For example, look at this search for people linking to Wingedpig.com
- Inline Preview – Click on the
next to a description. Kudos to Ben for making it sweet. Just think about your standard use of a search page. For me at least, I just open 10 links in new tabs in Firefox, and the go to each tab, closing ones I don’t find useful content inside. - Hourly Top Queries – Right there on the search tab.
- No Tags. – Unlike some ‘search engines’, we don’t need tags, just like all modern web searches don’t need HTML Meta Tags. RIP Technorati.
- Feeds – RSS Feeds of the search results are built in. You can sub to them from any reader, and see when someone blogs about you. Here is mine
- 5 minute updates – Within 5 minutes of content being found by Bloglines, it will be in the search results. How often does Bloglines crawl? Every site, every 30 minutes. In addition, Bloglines supports pings, for even faster updates. Worst case is about 35 minutes, but your average will be much much much lower.
I guess thats all for now.
EDIT: Two more things I forgot to mention:
- Result pages include hotkeys. Just press j for down, and k for up. Not that useful for 10 results per page, but change it to 100, and its very sweet.
- Mobile Blog Search. If you are ever bored with your Treo again, you can now search blogs.
Very cool chip, but trust you to break it on the day it launches. The second result on your search for pages linking to wingedpig is in fact this page, which…doesn’t.
hey, nice! much cooler now that I know a fellow ASFer was involved
couple of quick requests:
1. it’d be great if searches didn’t find the search string in a weblog’s name; e.g. ego-searching for “justin mason” finds every entry I post.
2. also, entries in RSS-format search output could do with the name and link of the weblog they were found in — similar to the kind of metadata visible in the HTML-format output.
sorry for throwing more workload into the mix
Nice work though.
wow — this page just turned up in the egosearch, due to my comment!
Interesting side-effect of indexing feeds, combined with the “comments” feed on the right…