The future Google User Interface ?

[Fred]

Dear Danny and Chris, I've been reading you for years and years. I've learnt many things from you. It's time to open again your eyes wide shut.

beta.exalead.com (http://beta.exalead.com) (Exalead is a company based in Paris).

- A very new UI
- 1 billion documents
- Dynamical classifications on the left (Refining keywords, categories, document type, etc.)
- Safe preview
- Thumbnails for all pages...

I would like to understand the reasons why noone talks about this searchengine. Do I dream ? Or are we so "gogolized" (I don't eat Google yet) that we aren't able to distinguish the new jewels born from the net ? Have we lost our curiosity ? When Google moove its finger..., should we make it as an event ?
Ok. Nevertheless, I remember a time : Yahoo, Altavista, Inktomi... Google... and then... : MSN at the end.

Just note, I search with Google, I like Google, but I love choice and diversity.

Cheers,

Fred

[seomike]

Hmmmm those "me and a buddy of mine" stories can go along way. I always like to hear names.

I think G is what it is because of it's simplicity. You start putting thumbnails, menus,icons and such in the SERPS people will find something easier to use.

[jfbruns]

Hi,

thanks for the link of exalead.com, Fred. It looks very interesting, I like the new layout and features like collapsing links and do NEAR searches (Query Options (http://beta.exalead.com/search/C=0/2p=QueryProcess) )

Also interesting is the proximity ranking feature.

Jan