www.melzoo.com !!! Web designers dream

[adventurelife]

www.melzoo.com (http://www.melzoo.com)

Will appeal to all web designers as design has just taken on a lot more importance if this search engine gets going ( or more likely google does something similar)

[Steve2507]

The results I've seen make it far too USA centric.

Even though I am in the GB part of the search engine for most of the terms I searched for 9 out of 10 were USA based.

I won't be using it again.

[adventurelife]

The results I've seen make it far too USA centric.

Even though I am in the GB part of the search engine for most of the terms I searched for 9 out of 10 were USA based.

I won't be using it again.

Hi Steve

That is because it is in beta and it is US centric. I suspect strongly that they will get that sorted if it flies and I also suggest that it was only a matter of time before search engines changed. Google will be watching I am sure.

I also have no intention of using it, yet! However, I had no intention of using google several years ago.

The whole web experience has got to change from being SEO/word driven to more visual/video driven as in a on demand tv channel

I am seeing signs of this everywhere. Some businesses will adapt early and be the winners others will play catch up.

The above are only my thoughts and could be complete rubbish, I am wrong much more often than I am right:)

[linksprocket]

Interesting concept try searchme same but more UI

[davidshaw89]

google makes the money it uses to power its search computers through adwords.

If this search engine were to run its own "adwords" program, how would that work? nobody would be ever click on the adverts if they could hover over and see the page at the side.

It is way too messy IMO. Try scrolling down the search results, and it loads every page that your mouse passes. Thats a major problem for anyone who is used to scrolling with the mouse wheel.

nice attempt from someone, but I can't see it catching on.

[ken_uk]

If they want to be the worlds number one search engine, they might find it a bit hard to achieve that if they are on a shared server with over two thousand other sites...

[PointandStare]

It's an old idea not very well executed.

Right side takes forever to load and then leaves out things like style sheets.
What 'web designers dream' has to do with it I do not know.

[Jheath]

...... if they are on a shared server with over two thousand other sites...

I'd love to know what tools are around to check this kinda thing. I've seen similar posts before - am I missing something?

[fisicx]

I'd love to know what tools are around to check this kinda thing. I've seen similar posts before - am I missing something?

http://whois.domaintools.com/

Just enter the domain name (not the full URL) and you will see all sorts of useful data.

It's also good for checking IP adresses.

[Birmingham]

would be better if the right pane loaded onclick rather than onmouseover in my opinion

[adventurelife]

It's an old idea not very well executed.

Right side takes forever to load and then leaves out things like style sheets.
What 'web designers dream' has to do with it I do not know.

If someone made this work it is a web designers dream because design takes will be more important.

When you scroll down each site is seen on the right. Good design that converts will result in a click. Bad design will not.

At present we are focused on words until we open the page. How many people open a web page then instantly leave? This would mean those that opened the site were impressed with the offering.

[That Guy]

I think its got protential, liking the idea :)

[PrettyPaws]

Utter garbage, a poor mans "hover over" link explorer. This would have been good 10 years ago maybe....and that's only a maybe.

[JustOneUK]

Will appeal to all web designers as design has just taken on a lot more importance if this search engine gets going ( or more likely google does something similar)
Wasn't Google already playing with the idea of showing thumbnails/previews of sites in it's search results?

[fisicx]

Wasn't Google already playing with the idea of showing thumbnails/previews of sites in it's search results?

Ask Jeeves, Exalead, Zoom, Alexa. All have tried and it as you will know they have taken market share, knocking google off top slot and revolutionised website design.

Google tried and got taken to court over the issue and lost: http://searchengineland.com/google-loses-thumbnail-copyright-cases-in-germany-15060

Melpoo doesn't do this, it actually visits the site and displays it in a frame. Well, half of it anyway. If this became popular this could bugger up your stats in the same way that AVG8 visits every time you do a search.

[Kernelpower_Ltd]

that site is not gonna be number one in my lifetime.

[PointandStare]

Wasn't Google already playing with the idea of showing thumbnails/previews of sites in it's search results?
Yes, Google or ex-Google employees. I can't find the link right now (or remember what the project was called) which shows how popular it was(n't).

[Delicious Webdesign]

Yes, Google or ex-Google employees. I can't find the link right now (or remember what the project was called) which shows how popular it was(n't).

wasnt it http://www.cuil.com/ ?

[PointandStare]

no. Before that.

[fisicx]

Ask Jeeves back in 2004: http://www.pandia.com/sw-2004/32-askjeeves.html