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The website isn't meant to be used for any real utility. What I wanted to demonstrate was just an alternate way to look at search.

I think we've just gotten so used to Google and its millions of results; I wondered, what would happen if I took that all away and presented only just a small handful of results?



That's kind of exactly what I saw, and despite the lack of utility, I was like "Oh! This is nice!"


Sometimes minimal is best. Then again, Google does have the 'I'm feeling lucky' button - maybe that ought to just display a few results for them?

Either way, nice experiment!


The "I'm Feeling Lucky" button doesn't actually work anymore. :(


Yep however now you type what you want, it works some ajax magic, press tab to activate the keyboard shortcuts then hit enter which takes you to the first result.

I use it without thinking about it now and I don't need to touch the mouse bearing in mind I'm on the keyboard typing the search.


This actually seems quite nice for a slightly extended dictionary :).


Are you using search results from other search engines and applying some heuristics on that or have you mined your own web data. nice start though !!!




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