Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 3rd Dec 2006 16:15 UTC, submitted by anonymous
"It's quite a challenge really: how does the Number 1 search engine on the web rewrite its search algorithm and test its effectiveness without hurting its current results and user-experience during the testing process? Sergey Brin and Larry Page seem to have figured it out: create a new search engine, and do your testing there! SearchMash.com is the evolution of Google, and should things go right, what Google will (soon enough) become. It tests a range of new features and methods of bringing information to the users' fingertips in more ways than immediately obvious to the eyes."
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2006-01-16
The interface is great. This is how searching makes fun.
Most people here are right, there should be more details to the results, like image proportions, ore useful links, like to the cache.
On the other side, there are many killer features. For example, one click to get more search results just where you are on the page, without a whole page reloading.
They clearly show how AJAX can be used right on a webpage. The whole page is about dynamic content, so the whole page also uses the mighty XML fetch..