Hm... Take this as a suggestion/loud thinking rather than criticism:<p>Generally I don't experience the lack of results, i.e. mixing up flickr, wikipedia and usual google's output isn't appealing to me. For instance I can always force wikipedia results by adding "wiki" at the end of my search. Same with youtube, etc.<p>The issue I'd like someone else to solve is the opposite: show me LESS instead of more. Oftentimes my search strings look painfully long, only because I'm trying to <i>filter stuff out</i>. A typical example would be googling for anything purchasable: fake review sites, web stores and commercialized "blogs"/linkfarms are all good at playing this game, and finding a real PHPbb form where photography people are talking about a particular lens or a monitor is becoming harder and harder. The same goes for bicycling equipment, computers, nearly everything. The only searches I find satisfying are mostly about history/wikipedia/programming/science.<p>Google isn't interested at solving this problem: their business depends on merchants being happy, whereas users don't need 2 pages of full of <i>buy now!!</i> offers staring at them after every search query.<p>Basically I want more intelligent version of typing:
"high quality LCD -buy -price -cnet -bargain"
More information about this launch on our blog - <a href="http://blog.webmynd.com" rel="nofollow">http://blog.webmynd.com</a><p>The main points are:<p>- We're now focused on building personalized search applications on top of the existing search infrastructure, rather than just web history (though that is still part of it)<p>- Launched an Internet Explorer extension<p>- New sharing features in the Firefox extension<p>- Supports Live Search and Yahoo as well as Google<p>- Custom browser extensions for publishers (e.g. the HNSearch one for Hacker News)<p>- New demo page so you can try it without installing: <a href="http://www.webmynd.com/demo?query=economy" rel="nofollow">http://www.webmynd.com/demo?query=economy</a>
Here's my simple attempt at a similar idea: <a href="http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/41872" rel="nofollow">http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/41872</a><p>It puts a search of my del.icio.us bookmarks above my google search results.
Definitely seems interesting, though as staunch said, the barrier to installing a new plugin is significant.<p>I wonder how Google feels about the widgets covering up the Adwords ads in the right column. Enough people start using it and that could impact their revenue. Is there even anything they could do about it? Maybe they would acquire the company, or just clone the best advances in search interface for themselves.<p>I also wonder if some of the widgets might be redundant. Wikipedia and YouTube, for example, are already heavily represented in search results. In the screenshot TC posted a few results are duplicated.
Seems like it could be useful for a researcher or something. It screams "vitamin" to me. I'm very reluctant to install a new plugin. It has to be very compelling and this just isn't (for me).