Without a doubt, this is a great start-up. Based on the franework’s close ties to Google, it might be a feature the tech-giant will implement natively.

Why I should take this extra effort. Just because Google wants to make more money by allowing content farms? I better switch to Bing.

this is our take on the future of search. We think the problem is not just the relevance of the search but the presentation of the data. Since the human brain process images much faster than text it makes sense to have the search displayed visually. It is much faster and easier to filter the results this way.
Also we remove the need for click and browsing and that’s why we call can reasonably call it the fastest search engine ever made :
http://www.psykomatic.com
If you have any suggestions on how to improve it please do so!

this is our take on the future of search. We think the problem is not just the relevance of the search but the presentation of the data. Since the human brain process images much faster than text it makes sense to have the search displayed visually. It is much faster and easier to filter the results this way.
Also we remove the need for click and browsing and that’s why we call can reasonably call it the fastest search engine ever made :
http://www.psykomatic.com
If you have any suggestions on how to improve it please do so!

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“the ability to specifically exclude suggested words from a search query – this is something a simple Google search actually can’t do.”

When did typing -[word] stop being simple ? It may not be as easy as highlight > left click… then again… a lot of the time nailing the highlight without whole sections being grabbed can be frustrating.

…excellent, hppefully the front end prompting for additional search terms will help people become better at the Boolean techniques too. I am quite surprised for as sophisticated as all the search engines are at indexing all the pages out there, that they have not indexed *me* by looking at my searches and my selections! The intersection of indexed web universe and my indexed searches and selections would be *much* more effective than the first alone… or is that a ‘violation’ of my personal space?

Sounds like company that will be snatched up by one of the search giants.

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Yep you better switch to Bing who does the exact same thing but shows less relevant results.

Search is bad, but it can be fixed… most likely by the existing players. I’d really like to see more along the lines of content discovery. Maybe something that taps into my social stream and determines my personality / interests / etc., and coughs up results that might interest me. Based on my response, and the responses of other people similar to me, you would probably start getting pretty good results.

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it looks like shit. and make same sense.

With useKit we try to solve the problem in a similar way. Lots of users are using Google to find websites or content they already have visited and bookmarked before. Because of this we show the personalized search results from the content the user already stored in useKit directly inside the google search result page (check out the screenshot below).

http://useKit.com/content/view/id/33004/usekit-search-results-in-google

Like this the user receives personalized search results directly inside the google search page. To see the results, the useKit tools have to be loaded (plugin installed or bookmarklet loaded).

Test

Just tried it, looking very promising!

Can’t you do this with Google already by using “” to search exact words and using – to remove certain words?

Here is a list of other filters: http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=136861

That’s exactly what I tried to say in a comment on http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/12/search-still-sucks/

Most people need to learn how to use Google search before complaining…here’s a short list what I use daily:

1. – to exclude an expression
2. + to make an expression mandatory
3. Quotation marks to group a set of words and form an expression which can’t be split (a web-page must contain exactly this expression or not. Use the + before the expression to make it mandatory)

Things I don’t use on a regular base, but I know it exists:

4. Use brackets to group expressions
5. AND to express that the expression on the left and on the right both are mandatory (similar to using a + before both)
6. OR to search for either expression

I bet there are more things. Maybe Google needs to advertise these more…

That’s exactly what I tried to say in a comment on http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/12/search-still-sucks/

Most people need to learn how to use Google search before complaining…here’s a short list what I use daily:

1. – to exclude an expression
2. + to make an expression mandatory
3. Quotation marks to group a set of words and form an expression which can’t be split (a web-page must contain exactly this expression or not. Use the + before the expression to make it mandatory)

Things I don’t use on a regular base, but I know it exists:

4. Use brackets to group expressions
5. AND to express that the expression on the left and on the right both are mandatory (similar to using a + before both)
6. OR to search for either expression

I bet there are more things. Maybe Google needs to advertise these more…

I heard nobody complaining about flash. Well I’ll do.

Why flash?
I don’t hate flash per se, but what caused this decision? Was it just because that’s what the existing engineers where best at or is there another reason?

The benefit is not the including and excluding words–it’s that it suggests good search terms. This clearly would add value to the vast number of people who don’t know how to use search engines properly on the level of knowing what to type in, not just those who don’t know the simple operators (such as + and -). The implementation can arguably be better, but the idea is pretty neat.

however, a better way would be nice for mobile devices… typing can be a bitch on them sometimes.

mmm. Can someone tell me how sortfix improves Searching? I went to sortfix and typed “cheap hotels in bangalore” and it suggested words like provides, service,india – how does this help?

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Trying out the iPad app and am liking it so far. Much thanks to your raisingmy awareness to this app. Good article!

That’s way too hard. I would never try to explain that to my mom or grandfather or even any one that’s not a total geek.

Google lists them all here http://www.google.com/support/websearch/bin/answer.py?answer=136861

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