dominod Posted October 5, 2010 Share Posted October 5, 2010 Hi, http://www.gedoo.com I've been working on this website for a couple of months now and need your input Please let me know what you like about my website, what you dont understand, what you hate and features I can add/make better I would really love for you to set Gedoo.com as your homepage for a couple of days just to try it out and see how easy it is to use Here is a lil description: Gedoo.com is a startpage where you can search in over 3000 (more is added daily) search engines from the same page. It includes search engines from many different countries and languages. You will only be able to see search engines in your language and english. If you just enter a search term it will automatically search in Google from your country. If you are from United Kingdom it will search in Google.co.uk, if you are from Canada it will search in Google.ca, ect. You can set any search engine you wish as your primary search engine. If you want eBay to be your primary search engine you just enter ebay and click on «Make primary» on the drop-down. Another smart feature is that you can enter urls directly into the search field. If you enter flickr.com in the search field it will automatically go to http://www.flickr.com. If you enter «you» in the search field you will see that «YouTube» shows as a suggestion. Click on YouTube, type in your search term and click enter and you will see that it searches in YouTube. Same goes for every other search engine in the database. You can also personalize Gedoo.com with background images. Go to http://www.gedoo.com/background/ and see all the backgrounds we offer. Gedoo.com features over 100 beautiful background images. Thanks for your time NOTE: For Opera users there is a tiny bug that makes it search in Google when you go down to select a search engine and click enter ... I am working to fix this... In the meanwhile you can just click on the search engine with the mouse and it will work fine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted October 5, 2010 Share Posted October 5, 2010 You have a unique concept but have gone it the wrong way. When a user consults a search engine that means they want what they are looking for fast, your website does not satisfy that need it merely provides a shortcut while it can be that much more IMO. A better approach would have been if you showed the top 10 results of the major search engines (Google, Bing, Yahoo) if they didn't select a search engine. I also noticed that when you select a search engine, YouTube for example you get a "prefix" I like this but I hate it that I still need to select it and can't just type "youtube<space>" to filter my results to a certain engine. Chaining up to 3 (or more) search engines would also be a nice feature, something like: "youtube<space>musicsearch<space>lyrical<space> kings of leon" would be transformed into "[musicsearch][lyrical] kings of leon" and show results out of those 3 search engines sorted on highest relevancy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominod Posted October 5, 2010 Author Share Posted October 5, 2010 Thanks for your input! One of the features that gives the user what he wants fast is the function that if you enter a URL it takes u directly there instead of via Google.. Its a small feature, but I use it ALOT! Anyways, the reason I didnt do top 10 search results from Google, Bing and Yahoo is because there is already many, many meta search engines out there... Plus Gedoo.com is not a search engine, its a start page. And Google is the most used search engine so I found it logic to use that as standard.. Users can choose any search engine as theire primary search engine (clicking "make primary" next to the search engine).. The thing about simply writing "youtube madonna" was actually a feature on Gedoo at the beginning... The reason I changed it was because when I got more and more search engines in the database it got mixed up.. Here is how; a country like Belgium for example has 3 languages (Dutch French and German) and Gedoo.com offers Google (or yahoo, bing or whatever) in all those languages.. Now if a guy from Belgium would write "google madonna" then the script wouldnt know what google to search in... I notcied that it just selected the first Google it found which could be Japanese or whatever... Therefor I had to make sure the user selected it by id and not name... But I agree that this is a better and faster method of searching other sites so I will think about it and hopefully come up with a solution.. if you have any ideas please let me know Your last idea is also interesting... But the problem would be if you enter "youtube musicsearch lyrical kings of leon" how would the script know what you are searching for and where? are you searching for "musicsearch lyrical kings of leon" at youtube? Or are you searching for "lyrical kings of leon"? A solution to this as I see it would be the same selection procedure.. that you have to select manually multiple search engines... It might work I will have a look at it.. If you have any suggestions to other ways of doing it it would be great I will anyways give your suggestions some thought and see what I want to add to my site.. Thanks alot for your time and input Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ignace Posted October 6, 2010 Share Posted October 6, 2010 Gedoo.com is not a search engine, its a start page It didn't strike me as one Now if a guy from Belgium would write "google madonna" then the script wouldnt know what google to search in... It would, every user has a locale setting (not saying this is entirely reliable but it will give you an idea of what languages the user can speak). "youtube musicsearch lyrical kings of leon" how would the script know what you are searching for and where? It would look for Kings of Leon on YouTube, MusicSearch, and Lyrical. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominod Posted October 6, 2010 Author Share Posted October 6, 2010 Now if a guy from Belgium would write "google madonna" then the script wouldnt know what google to search in... It would, every user has a locale setting (not saying this is entirely reliable but it will give you an idea of what languages the user can speak). Yes I have that feature on my site... Only for countries though... not for areas in a country. "youtube musicsearch lyrical kings of leon" how would the script know what you are searching for and where? It would look for Kings of Leon on YouTube, MusicSearch, and Lyrical. Yes I get your point but what if I want to search for "lyrical kings of leon" at YouTube and MusicSearch? How would the script know? becuase it would be the same search string ... "youtube musicsearch lyrical kings of leon" I like your suggestions, its just a few complications .. I will have a look at it... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rakuhana Posted October 8, 2010 Share Posted October 8, 2010 ebay.com -> http://ebay.com isn't exactly a smart feature. It would be better if you just typed in the name like ebay, and it would try to go to the best match (hint: use I'm feeling lucky) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominod Posted February 24, 2011 Author Share Posted February 24, 2011 Some exiting new features on Gedoo now it has a new design as you can see.. You now get a list of your last used search engines so you can make repeated searches faster. You can also type directly the name of the search engine you want to search in with the term and it will auto-detect that search engine. For example if you type "youtube music" and click enter you will search for music in youtube. Gedoo also has alot more search engines to search in (over 9000 actually!) and new ones are added every day! Hope you enjoy it and please give me feedback and input on how to make it better Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohdang888 Posted February 27, 2011 Share Posted February 27, 2011 I personally don't like how when you click on the links of possible searches, it takes you to that page instead of bringing results up on the page itself. For example, say i type "umbrella" and click ebay, it takes me to ebay query with umbrella. Why not use the ebay API (which im not sure if they have but i'm assuming the do) to query the top results and show them via ajax Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominod Posted February 27, 2011 Author Share Posted February 27, 2011 I personally don't like how when you click on the links of possible searches, it takes you to that page instead of bringing results up on the page itself. For example, say i type "umbrella" and click ebay, it takes me to ebay query with umbrella. Why not use the ebay API (which im not sure if they have but i'm assuming the do) to query the top results and show them via ajax Well eBay has API but all sites dont.. Gedoo has over 9000 different search engines.. Plus the idea behind Gedoo is that you can use it as a startpage and easily search in any page you wish straight from the startpage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohdang888 Posted February 28, 2011 Share Posted February 28, 2011 has over 9000 different search engines.. Plus the idea behind Gedoo is that you can use it as a startpage and easily search in any page you wish straight from the startpage ya but i'm assuming all the sites you're listing on the left column there are the big ones that have API's. and while its meant to be a start page, it should use as much AJAX as possible... to me, at least, the best scenario of the one i listed would be to click on "ebay", ajax loads the results in a good looking results page, and i click on that one i want to research further and it takes me to that particular page. Idk, just my preferences. Maybe give users a chance to choose? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominod Posted March 1, 2011 Author Share Posted March 1, 2011 has over 9000 different search engines.. Plus the idea behind Gedoo is that you can use it as a startpage and easily search in any page you wish straight from the startpage ya but i'm assuming all the sites you're listing on the left column there are the big ones that have API's. and while its meant to be a start page, it should use as much AJAX as possible... to me, at least, the best scenario of the one i listed would be to click on "ebay", ajax loads the results in a good looking results page, and i click on that one i want to research further and it takes me to that particular page. Idk, just my preferences. Maybe give users a chance to choose? I understand what you mean The search engines listed on index.php is the most popular for your country. I will take your suggestion into concideration later on Thanks alot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jlynn628 Posted March 23, 2011 Share Posted March 23, 2011 Well i only did one search and that was for my husbands name - who is a musician - whose website I have created and maintain - for which I also handle all social media marketing / youtube / general business management. I am immediately impressed with the information your site has shown me. I am self taught at everything and am always looking to see how we are doing on certain sites or what info is out there. I found somebody selling one of his cd's on ebay for $30 which is comical which is normally $12 or much less to download. I also found a link to a news site from back 5 years ago when a meth lab next door to us got busted and he was interviewed (or course the story was gone but the headline was there). I agree with the post above that it would be better if the list on the left didn't take you right to that site but instead opened the list on the right for you to review. Then I searched for restaurant site that I maintain. Found some interesting results there as well. Found a bunch of videos on youtube I didn't know where there. Interesting site. I will check it out some more.... Am very curious why the results seem to be different than if I had actually typed the same thing into that particular sites search box. Wouldn't mind seeing more choice on the left. Seems like a nice little shortcut. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominod Posted March 30, 2011 Author Share Posted March 30, 2011 Well i only did one search and that was for my husbands name - who is a musician - whose website I have created and maintain - for which I also handle all social media marketing / youtube / general business management. I am immediately impressed with the information your site has shown me. I am self taught at everything and am always looking to see how we are doing on certain sites or what info is out there. I found somebody selling one of his cd's on ebay for $30 which is comical which is normally $12 or much less to download. I also found a link to a news site from back 5 years ago when a meth lab next door to us got busted and he was interviewed (or course the story was gone but the headline was there). I agree with the post above that it would be better if the list on the left didn't take you right to that site but instead opened the list on the right for you to review. Then I searched for restaurant site that I maintain. Found some interesting results there as well. Found a bunch of videos on youtube I didn't know where there. Interesting site. I will check it out some more.... Am very curious why the results seem to be different than if I had actually typed the same thing into that particular sites search box. Wouldn't mind seeing more choice on the left. Seems like a nice little shortcut. Hi jlynn628 I am really glad that you find Gedoo interessing and useful Hopefully you will be using it in the future as well. The reason why I am not showing results from other search engines directly into Gedoo Search is because not all sites allow this.. In fact only a small percentage do. I might do it for the biggest sites in the future but right now it makes more sense to just redirect. Why you see other results from Gedoo then is you type it in directly on the site I have no idea why. :/ I will look into that. What site(s) exactly are you experiencing that on btw? Also about the left hand menu, I am working on a "Get more search engines" autosuggestion tool where you can type in the name of the search engine you want to search in similar to the one on index Thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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