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Old May 24, 2006 | 08:56 PM
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What do you think of this metasearch engine?

"A new web-based metasearch engine that scours A9, Amazon, digg, Google, Technorati and Yahoo. Inquisitor also serves up suggested search terms and it displays the results in frame." -Steve Ruble Micro Persuasion

I haven't tried it since it only works with Firefox or Opera. Think it's worth the effort to load FF, or just stick with Google?

Here is the link: http://www.inquisitorx.com/beta/
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Old May 24, 2006 | 09:00 PM
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I like it, pretty neat. Just like OSX's "Spotlight"
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Old May 25, 2006 | 05:12 AM
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Looks pretty cool.
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Old May 25, 2006 | 06:06 AM
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Interesting... seems like a good bit of 'Net overhead to do the incremental searches. I like the idea, but for me, it's kindofa annoying to have the results pane constantly repaint.

Google has a built-in feature where it will "suggest as you type" which will do a lot of the work that you see this engine doing in the left pane. If you like that stuff, then just flip the "complete" flag on when hitting Google:

http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1

Works in all browsers...
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Old May 25, 2006 | 07:32 AM
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Originally Posted by midiwall
Interesting... seems like a good bit of 'Net overhead to do the incremental searches. I like the idea, but for me, it's kindofa annoying to have the results pane constantly repaint.

Google has a built-in feature where it will "suggest as you type" which will do a lot of the work that you see this engine doing in the left pane. If you like that stuff, then just flip the "complete" flag on when hitting Google:

http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1

Works in all browsers...
I've been playing with Suggest for a few months. Interesting feature, like a niche Zeitgeist. Now it's part of 4.0 Beta. Where is the "complete" flag?
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Old May 25, 2006 | 07:37 AM
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Originally Posted by BT17R
Where is the "complete" flag?
You specify it on the command line...

This...
http://www.google.com/webhp

is different than this...
http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1
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Old May 25, 2006 | 07:39 AM
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Gotcha, thanks. I was looking for a new toolbar button to get there faster.
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Old May 25, 2006 | 08:33 AM
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Originally Posted by BT17R
Gotcha, thanks. I was looking for a new toolbar button to get there faster.
Ahh... 'k. I just keep Google as a click on the toolbar, so I can change the properties behind it.
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