Tuesday, April 05, 2005

igrep & indeed

igrep

I just heard about iGrep. Apparently Wil Wheaton is teaming up with developershed.com for this site. An interesting idea. But what I find interesting is the interface that these vertical search engines provide. They all look similar to google. Fast to load, and barely have anything other than a logo, and a text box, and a couple of links.

indeed.com is another such search engine with just such an interface.

Its a pleasure to see such interfaces. It's so frustrating waiting for hotmail/yahoo mail pages to load.

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...