Blog Entry
May 24

So Far So Good

Posted in Gadget Stuff

So far, the Ultimate Explorer gadget seems to be a hit. Over 1,000 downloads in less than 24 hours is always pretty cool. We did spend quite a bit of time on it, so I’m relieved that at least some people like it. :)

Though not everyone seems to be a fan, and to each their own opinion, if you have a legitimate problem with our gadget, I would love to hear it. Seriously, if we can improve what we do, we definitely try to do so. However, try to stay on topic:

Posted on 5/24/2007
Just what this site needs!
Another search gadget… 0.5 stars from me for originality!

Sometimes, it’s not that something has to be so wildly inventive that no one else has seen it before. There are plenty of gadgets on Live.com that can do that. What we wanted to do was address the lack of powerful search gadgets on the site. Sure there are powerful search gadgets for particular sites, but it just seemed that most of the multiple search gadgets acted only as a glorified bookmark for websites. Now granted, there is a bit of that with our gadget (though we included as many options as we could), but there is more here than in the regular search gadgets.

News, Videos, Web Searches, Product Searches, the interface alone should be considered original if you look at how it was constructed. Seriously, once you start playing around in this thing, I think the opinion that this isn’t original at all will wash away in the wake of what this thing can do.

Have You tried out the gadget yet?


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5 Responses to “So Far So Good”

  1. platypusser Says:
    May 25th, 2007 at 10:50 pm

    i love what you have so far and your willingness to receive feedback. geat idea for the meta-searcher. only thing i think you are lacking is a price comparison engine - could ya add one? keep it up!

  2. JKP Says:
    May 26th, 2007 at 12:49 am

    I like the idea of the gadget, but I am having a problem with it. The button at the top (one with the search engine name) when clicked goes to my default browser (Firefox). The Search button forces IE to open.

  3. admin Says:
    May 27th, 2007 at 6:34 am

    @Platypusser: Thank you for your comment. :) We’ll consider adding a price comparison engine in the future.

    @JKP: I think the reason why the gadget does that is because the top link is an actual anchor link versus the search link which is using the javascript window.open property. I’ll look into a solution on this, though it may actually have something to do with the gadget framework instead of the code.

  4. prestige Says:
    May 27th, 2007 at 10:17 am

    Great work with the gadget! I second what JKP mentioned; it would be great if its possible to select our own executable for the browser… (e.g firefox.exe)

    Could you add a search for Dictionary.com/Thersarus as well? Anyway, keep up e good work.

  5. admin Says:
    May 30th, 2007 at 12:59 pm

    That might be possible in the future, though it depends on the space we have in the options panel to add it in and I’m not entirely sure how well it’s going to work with particular searches.

    I’ve done some research on the topic, so I’ll say it’s a longshot right now. We’re going to test some stuff out for the next update and see if we can fix it, it’s a longshot, but you never know.

    We’ll keep the Dictionary.com search in mind for future updates. :)

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