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I have seen the future of search: and it is Snap
Some of the features:
- Fast visual display of results
- Predictive “as you type” search terms
- Direct interactivity with the search results
Some of you may agree or disagree but hopefully you check it out. I think that the almighty Google may have a competitor in the search arena.
Some things I know may be formulating to extol the virtues of google.
Google Suggest is nearly identical to what Snap has except that it is still something in the Labs. It has not been incorporated into everyones favorite search destination. Why not? By the way, have you seen that Google Suggest now features the number of search results in green next to the suggested search terms? Pretty cool.
One argument against the feature of direct interactivity with your search results may be: “Come on Nate we are in 2006 now, we all know about Mozilla Firefox and tabbed browsing. We can easily search on Google and then middle click results we are interested in to open in new tabs therefore we never need to use the Back button.” Good point. You gotta love tabbed browsing if only for opening up multiple candidates during a standard google search results session.
Is anyone else getting damned fed up with how many times your google search just sends you to another directory which you can scan across? And then you have to click on a link within that directory and maybe you will end up on a page with the actual content you are looking for. It seems like the Spammers and MFA sites are just introducing middlemen between my search and my desired results. I don’t like it, I don’t like it at all. And I am also sick of this damn about.com site. Google seems to love it. Are monstrosity sites like this that have lots of backlinks and lots of canned content the future of the web. God I hope not. I envision a web that has many small unique sites that are very narrowly tailored to their particular category of interest. Not some pretensious corporation that is trying to win some sort of cash-grab war on fluffy basic content.
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