« A lost life | Main | Best magazine covers » gada.beChris Pirillo's behind a very interesting new metasearch engine, gada.be. Sez Chris, It was borne out of several frustrations. If you've ever tried to visit a Web site over a mobile device, you know it's a pain in the knuckle. The domain had to be simple to key-in from anywhere. gada.be is 4232.2233 on most cell phones and/or PSP. Normally, when you want to find something online, you have to choose a Web site (wait for the page to load) enter the query (wait for the second page to load) then see results from that provider. With "gada.be," you insert the query *AS* the subdomain! Those are two different URLs, each with a different set of results. A dot between two keywords implies a quoted statement, whereas a dash implies the AND operator. Note, too, that you can easily change categories by adding the designated category slug to the end of the entire URL. Too geeky for you? Then you're thinking too hard about it. jon posted this at 8:37 AM |
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Interesting good, or interesting bad? :)
Posted by: Chris Pirillo | October 15, 2005 11:03 AM
Hey Jon
I just found something you wrote about me using this.
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Posted by: bazooka | October 15, 2005 11:35 AM
Was it the Electric Minds piece?
Posted by: Jon Lebkowsky | October 15, 2005 3:55 PM
Chris, I originally said "very cool," but that sounded trite so I changed it to "very interesting." I wasn't thinking of the Chinese curse.
Posted by: Jon Lebkowsky | October 15, 2005 3:58 PM
It was more recent
http://austin.metblogs.com/archives/2005/07/bazooka.phtml
Posted by: bazooka | October 15, 2005 5:14 PM