My wife and I have a small site that serves up hamburger casserole recipes ( <a href="http://hamburger-casserole-recipes.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hamburger-casserole-recipes.com/</a> )<p>She was getting over 15K visits per month -- the site made almost nothing, but we enjoyed creating it together, watching the numbers and responding to emails. And the numbers kept climbing -- at least until a couple of weeks ago.<p>I noticed the traffic numbers starting to drop. I was wondering why. I thought about digging into it but put it off. Perhaps this new feature at DDG did it? If so, fine with me. They doing a much more awesome job than we did.<p>The only reason I mention it is because this is the type of question that if you knew enough, you could find the answers in SEO-land. But for a little mom-and-pop site, lots of times you don't have that luxury. You're hot for a few months then suddenly it all dies off and you never know why. You could be adding the best content you can and still all the visitors disappear. No skin off of my back in this particular case, but this has to be frustrating for lots of folks -- especially if your site is a startup instead of something silly like recipes.<p>Way cool UI! I think we'll add it -- looks like it might be a nice fit.
My favorite part of punchfork (besides Jeff) are the custom url shorteners. Check out the customize dropdown on the side of a recipe page: <a href="http://punchfork.com/recipe/Bramble-Chow" rel="nofollow">http://punchfork.com/recipe/Bramble-Chow</a><p>Nice little touch.
Sorry unrelated, but just realized DuckDuckGo has hash bang syntax for hackernews!<p>!hackernews which leads to a hnsearch.com search results!<p>I've been using it as my default search engine for about 2/3 weeks now and its been unnoticeable (in a good way)
I just thought: DuckDuckGo should get a shorter domain name because it takes to long to type it. It thought of duck.com so I checked what's there, and to my surprise it redirected to... google! Looks like someone there also thought of this.<p>Or has "duck" another (search related) meaning in english that I'm not aware of?
A great tool for recipe ideas is to enter two ingredients and see what comes up:
<a href="http://duckduckgo.com/?q=chickpea+potato" rel="nofollow">http://duckduckgo.com/?q=chickpea+potato</a>
Ironically, the search has a little bug. There's no where to do a two word phrase search, so if i do 'fried chicken' or "fried chicken" I get chicken fried steak as the number one result. Seems like the refinements show that it also searched for the word individually.
I also like how the API directs you to the source of the recipe.<p>Click on one of the recipes in the Punchfork results:<p><a href="http://duckduckgo.com/?q=mojito+recipe" rel="nofollow">http://duckduckgo.com/?q=mojito+recipe</a><p>Jeff is doing an amazing job with Punchfork and this is a great addition.
Gabriel, if you are reading this, I am waiting on the duckduckgo stickers with a fork stuck in the bill in response to this. Gota put it on my hot rod...err... dinky netbook.