Wundrbar is the next generation of search (YC Winter 08)

One thing people don't want to do is have to memorize a syntax just to use a search engine. A lot of people have trouble with Google as it is. I realize that the idea is to augment traditional search engines' capabilities (so that people will have <i>less</i> trouble), but it's going to have to be easy for non-hackers to catch on to it. The learning curve has to be shallow or the average user is going to give up on it. That being said I really like the way it tells you what it thinks you mean as you type though, and definitely think there is potential for this type of thing.

Is it just me that sees Wonder Bra as the name though?

Overall, nice work. It seems to have a lot of potential! It would be cool to be able to use wundrbar in a linux terminal and pipe the results to a Conky (<a href="http://conky.sourceforge.net/" rel="nofollow">http://conky.sourceforge.net/</a>) window :)<p>If in doubt about structuring the query, I find its much easier to start by typing in the service name and following up with parameters specified in the feedback box.

This could be very cool.<p>I am trying out the firefox search box (<a href="http://www.wundrbar.com/static/extras" rel="nofollow">http://www.wundrbar.com/static/extras</a>). The default search is still google so I lose nothing and potentially gain a lot. Bring on the plugins!

<i>"... Wundrbar is the next generation of search ..."</i><p>lost me at "enter your twitter username &#38; password". certainly don't need to do this with google, icerocket, yahoo, altavista.

Looks great. Personally I love yubnub but I don't think they've taken the idea very far - lets hope wundrbar does. Yubnub has user added scripts which is an advantage though.

For those who like these kind of very narrow searches, there is "Surfraw - Shell Users' Revolutionary Front Rage Against the Web"[1].<p>[1] - <a href="http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org" rel="nofollow">http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org</a>

i think it would be a good idea to push what functionality is available on the main page; i trolled through what might be there by doing "a" backspace, "b", backspace, "c". also, more than half of the "sample commands" i handle as keyword searches in FF or as prefix: to google: i think those could be more compelling.<p>also, minor bug report: "bestbuy ipod" redirected me to a page on bestbuy.com that was empty.<p>neat implementation though, looking forward to seeing further iterations.

Which is the best place to get started with computational semantics ?Wundrbar seem to interpret search queries very efficiently.

It would be cool to have this integrated into Firefox's address bar (I know the wikipedia trick already is).