NoFoodHere is a search engine that enables users to search the web with “the flexibility of tabbed searching and results that stream down the page in real-time.”
NoFoodHere is not trying to refine the search results (the site is currently pulling Yahoo results with a move to Google being considered) but is trying to change the way a user interfaces with a search engine.
The tab browsing allows users to run multiple search queries concurrently in the same browser window; not an earth shattering feature but some what handy. Where NoFoodHere gets interesting is with the results themselves. The whole concept of clicking through page after page of search results is gone with NoFoodHere. The site automatically loads a long list of search results to start with, then as a user scrolls down the page more results are loaded in real-time. In effect, you could end up with thousands, or even more results on the one page, all without the need to click a page. It’s a feature that works very well; in testing I found it more reliable than Google Reader when it came to showing additional results as I moved down the page.
NoFoodHere comes from Frankston (Vic), Australia based Jordan Bayliss-McCulloch, a third-year Engineering student at the University of Melbourne.
very cool
google needs to acquire this dude
Check TWERQ – they do something very similar but it looks 100% better, has multitabs, multi-search at once, collapsing titles, saved searches, search collaboration. Click my name for my interview with the CEO.
http://www.twerq.com
We will see more of this type of add-on innovation as search is search, right?
Live Search had the feature of scrolling down infinitely for results when it first launched. They removed it, as users complained about it (it’s hard to keep track of things it there are no pages).
Any search engine could do this in-house, in very little time. It’s neat, unoriginal AJAX.
Lately I’ve been holding TechCrunch to high standards, but this is quite the exception.
Why post this?
Even though I don’t think that it will be the next Google, it does seem promising. I have to admit, I hate searching the old fashioned way and this might be the next big thing. The only thing that I would have a problem with is keeping up with sites that I have visited. Maybe this won’t be a problem since I bookmark every site to go back to later and when I no longer need them, I delete it.
Wow, another totally worthless company featured on TechCrunch. These features are mundane and not particularly relevant.
I guess there isn’t a new Y Bombinator company or social network left to feature. We’ve exhausted everything interesting and then some. Duncan continues to fend for the scraps while executing extremely poorly on grammatical structures in the English language.
so now we have tabs inside of tabs.. yeah thats a good idea…….
we can add some windows inside the tabs that are inside the tabs next.
Is this post serious? Is there really nothing better to post? searchers very rarely go to the second page of results because they tend to suck so why would this be useful?
This would be useful if the results kept being refined in real-time… more relevant results climbing up to the top and you only need to watch for the top ten or so…
this is a “company”??? no, this is a weekly programming assignment at a junior college. it is a ten-hour hack for a good webdev.
i am sure there is a story behind the moronic domain name, but i can’t be bothered to suss it out.
someone should tell these morons that yahoo rate-limits search apis.
in fairness after reading the “about us” blurb on the site, this is one guy just goofing off, he’s admitting as much
he seems to understand there is no business to it
Who is this Duncan you speak of?
Not sure if this is really worth mentioning. He’s got some good web skills, but definatly not newsworthy… at least not yet.
Only 5000 per day! Ugh… what timezone do they mean
This must be a really slow news day.
In other breaking news, an MIT student completes an undemanding programming homework assignment!
Seriously, what is wrong with some the readers on techcrunch. Some of these comments are just stupid and negative. If you’re not interested don’t read it. If you think you know everything, start your own company and make a billion dollars. If you know every good idea when you see it, then maybe you should be a VC.
The interface is innovative and useful. Which is probably more than most of the negative commenters here have ever accomplished in their lives.
Remember, this is just a (really) beta version. A lot more features are on the horizon.
The idea is to show off some of the things that can be done with searching, and hopefully encourage some of the larger search engines to experiment with more ‘modern’ and dynamic user interfaces. NoFoodHere is a test-bed for (hopefully good) ideas, with the end goal of improving user’s online searching experience.
I personally use the GoogleAutoPager, Greasemonkey Script for Firefox
Hmm… Techcrunch seems to have started wasting my time… Just HEADS UP!!!
I agree with whoopie and Tech Dumpster on this one. Pretty weak. Might be better to be featured on a site like eHub than TechCrunch.
Just tried to search on it but I guess the TechCrunch effect was a little too much to handle for this homework assignment :-
Sorry!
The Yahoo! Search API backend is limited to only 5,000 queries per day (imposed by Yahoo!), and that limit has been exceeded.
Please try your search again later.
In the mean time, you can view some “dummy data” to get a feel for the NoFoodHere search.
We are really sorry for this, but sadly it is out of our control.
We are working to find a better solution.
– NoFoodHere
The site seems quite cool. I might have to review it on my site.
http://www.crenk.com
Very good. I like and optimistic about his future
Welcome to the http://customsearch.net
Sorry about the 5,000 queries/day limit. I am trying to get this limitation removed.
It’s a cool feature, but not enough to bring in users. I had this idea in June and made a proof-of-concept in about 3 hours. I used the Google API since I prefer Google’s results. Here is my proof of concept: http://www.paulbutler.org/archives/endless-google-search/ .
Reading and using this is just a waste of time. Try using this and clicking on a result and hitting back button.
Seriously these kinds of posts ruin the credibility of this site.
I also have some big news to report:
A UC Santa Cruz student in his off hours has just completed a revolutionary search engine using cutting edge HTML. The URL of this search engine (please, it’s in private beta right now, so don’t tell too many others), is called, coincidentally, http://www.noduncanhere.com .
Remarkably, the only function of this search engine is that its results only include relevant, timely, grammatically correct posts about companies that matter and guarantees not to waste anyone’s time.
I hate to say this, but I think the name is bad. It’s so hard to brand a company name, I wince every time I see things like this. But, launching an internet start up in this market while you’re still in college is pretty cool.
@ AS
Haha. That’s awesome. Come on over to TechDumpster and let’s continue the conversation.
Here’s Duncan’s response on my personal blog:
http://livinginfirstlife.wordpress.com/2007/07/31/duncan-riley-of-techcrunch-is-a-baby/
Google already does the result scrolling thing:
http://www.searchmash.com/