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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Member since:2006-01-17
...rediscover searchmash again and again and report it as novelty over again
It was news to me, not that that means anything. How long has searchsmash been around?
Edit: By reading TFA I see that it's a few months old. If the article is right, that is.
Anyway, I like it. Especially the wikipedia side tab. I've tried the googlepedia firefox extension but didn't like how it slowed down all searches while waiting for the wiki info to load.
Edited 2006-12-03 22:42
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2005-07-06
The real news in this for me is that from time to time I can have repeatedly fun reading how users rediscover searchmash again and again and report it as novelty over again. Thing is, it probably hasn't changed much recently since these reports seem to be kind of the same for a time now.
Edited 2006-12-03 21:11