I don't like to have so many button's everywhere. I think links would be better than buttons. |
Nice, idea, however:
It would be better to have the buttons as links, then people could middle-click all the engines they would like to use. The only reason for using buttons is to make it compatable for people who have disabled JavaScript (making it submit as a form), but at the moment even this isn't exploited, as the buttons just execute JavaScript!
Also the JavaScript currently used for the onMouseOver effects could be replaced with some simple CSS.
It would also be nice if left floated DIVs were used instead of a table. This way when the window is resized they would automatically flow to all remain on screen and maintain their width.
And after all that, as a rather minor point, if the page is specified as XHTML 1.0 Transitional, it might as well /slightly/ validate: http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A%2F%2Fmrquery.com%2F
Overall: A for idea, C- for implementation. |
It seems okay – but somewhat redundant given sites like http://www.ihound.com and http://www.crossengine.com. The former provides, imho, a much better experience and the latter has more depth. |
Ouch. Ihound doesn't even use form labels:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2005-04-14-n77.html
CrossEngine works nice though... |
Doesn't even use form labels? Are you kidding – compared to Mr. Query I cannot believe you think that matters. Either of these provide in excess of what Mr. Query offers imo. |
This is a pretty lame website. I clicked on "All" and it opened FIVE new browser windows. Are you kidding me?
This would be an innovative Web 2.0 interface if it asynchronously performed your query using APIs and scraping and then updated the page you are currently viewing. If you click "All" then it should quietly perform your search on each engine and show you the results.
Dogpile.com has been doing this for years.
Let me give the author of this website a hint: NEVER open a new browser window or tab. It's just bad form. |
Wjp, yes I think using checkbox labels matters, because clicking the tiny checkbox squares is low usability. This was not meant in any way to suggest that this is a reason to use Mr. Query instead, though. |
There is a typo included to UI too.
See Financial section and The Motely Fool.
It should be The Motley Fool... ;-) |
Juha-Matti Laurio – done, thanks! |
10x everyone, I'm working on your suggestions, do you have some suggestions about the Search providers or slogans? |
Personally I'd love to have a Creative Commons search there (to find free-to-share content, like certain Flickr images). You can check my multi-search gadget to find search query URLs for those...
http://www.google.com/ig/add?moduleurl=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.outer-court.com%2Fhomepage%2Fmulti-search-light.xml |
added "free to use", thanks Philipp.
Any other suggestions? one more column to go...
Discussion also welcomed on the mrquery wiki: http://editthis.info/mrquery
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