Published on 2006-05-17 10:58:37
Snap is an AJAX based search engine combining techniques from Yahoo, Google and A9 to make a powerful user-friendly interface. The interface is very similar to Google reader, with the lens focusing on the first result on the right coloumn, and showing a snapshot of the page in the left one. The navigation is also very easy using keyboard up/down arrows to move between selection and enter to open result in a new page.
Snap is a very different way of searching, one we suspect will take a bit of getting use to. As you can imagine, we’ve done a ton of usability testing in developing Snap and here’s what we’ve learned: while Snap isn’t complicated, it is a different way of searching in which a little bit of orientation goes a long way to increasing satisfaction. So, we’ve tried to help introduce ourselves to you in a number of ways.
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