Definitely seems interesting, though as staunch said, the barrier to installing a new plugin is significant.
I wonder how Google feels about the widgets covering up the Adwords ads in the right column. Enough people start using it and that could impact their revenue. Is there even anything they could do about it? Maybe they would acquire the company, or just clone the best advances in search interface for themselves.
I also wonder if some of the widgets might be redundant. Wikipedia and YouTube, for example, are already heavily represented in search results. In the screenshot TC posted a few results are duplicated.
Wikipedia and YouTube are actually the most popular widgets that users add to the search sidebar when we do not include them by default. That surprised us too since those results are usually surfaced well be Google.
We think that grouping the results by source actually makes it easier to filter through the mass of information - you usually know where you are most likely to find the information you need, it just seems easier to go to Google to do the search.
Flickr and Twitter results are other popular sources to add.
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Definitely seems interesting, though as staunch said, the barrier to installing a new plugin is significant.
I wonder how Google feels about the widgets covering up the Adwords ads in the right column. Enough people start using it and that could impact their revenue. Is there even anything they could do about it? Maybe they would acquire the company, or just clone the best advances in search interface for themselves.
I also wonder if some of the widgets might be redundant. Wikipedia and YouTube, for example, are already heavily represented in search results. In the screenshot TC posted a few results are duplicated.
Wikipedia and YouTube are actually the most popular widgets that users add to the search sidebar when we do not include them by default. That surprised us too since those results are usually surfaced well be Google.
We think that grouping the results by source actually makes it easier to filter through the mass of information - you usually know where you are most likely to find the information you need, it just seems easier to go to Google to do the search.
Flickr and Twitter results are other popular sources to add.