Mashup! Let search engines show thumbnails

Just as the "007 function" was told, it seems quite controversial. It is a good thing to argue that these ideas are neither common sense nor manifestly worthless fallacies, but a chance to discuss some of the common problems that are worth discussing.

The article also mentioned the search engine, I personally is not very concerned about their home page How to design, I quite fancy results page design and innovation. Before our Chinese Yahoo colleague made a very new search. Its innovation, in addition to the kind of hand-painted style, the most important thing is the so-called "Mashup." I think this is one of the most important two trends in the development of Internet technology (the other is a platform like Facebook), through a number of simple (but powerful) technology, the intelligent integration of various information resources to show. Then China's Yahoo launched a universal search, which combines web search, music Search, image search, interpersonal search, etc., is a mashup success story.

And Googlepreview is also an excellent innovation on the existing search results page. It is a Firefox plug-in (also has IE version), after installation, in Google or Yahoo search keywords, you can not only see the text description of the search results, you can see the target site screenshots. By carrying the map, we can actually learn a lot of things:

• What does this site look like?
• Does it look professional enough?
• Does it look like a lot of commercials?
• Does it look familiar?
• Does it look like a commercial website or a personal site?

In short, does it look like the kind of site I'm looking for?

In addition to this, because the picture is more attractive to our attention, and those small sites, not often someone to visit (PR is not necessarily low) site, is also those who are likely to have no thumbnails of the site (the thumbnail provider can not take screenshots of the entire Internet, it must only intercept those who often request thumbnails of the site).

In this way, the picture will help us to improve the impact of selecting search results.

Unfortunately, Googlepreview only supports Google and Yahoo, and for domestic users, we also have Google, China Yahoo and Baidu. So I also mashup a, with Greasemonkey wrote a small script, the thumbshots.org picture displayed on the Search engine results page. Then use user Script compiler to compile it into a Firefox plugin.

If you like to use Firefox, you can download this widget here. After downloading, drag the. xpi file to the Firefox window to install it. These search engines can now be supported:

• Yahoo.com
• Yahoo.com.cn
• yahoo.cn
• google.com
• goolge.cn
• Baidu.com

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