Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits?

Re:Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits? by aristus on Monday May 12, 2008 @05:05PM (#187996)

http://dowser.sf.net

A desktop metasearcher + archiver + personal search engine. It got lost in the noise when Google & Yahoo had their pissing match over desktop search in late 2004. The failure wasn't inexplicable: it was just too much work for one person... which makes the quote on the bottom of the page bitterly ironic.

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Re:Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits? by anotherjesse on Monday May 12, 2008 @05:12PM (#188004)

Dowser is/was amazing. When I was at Flock I would always use it as the example of what we should be doing with search in the browser.

Mozilla's start page with the google box is nice but nothing compared to dowser.

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Re:Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits? by aristus on Monday May 12, 2008 @05:18PM (#188007)

That's... actually very cool and gratifying to hear. Thank you. :)

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Re:Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits? by cousin_it on Monday May 12, 2008 @05:11PM (#188002)

I guess nowadays such things are made as Firefox extensions, e.g. Breadcrumbs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2954 .

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Re:Ask YC: Have you built a good website that nobody visits? by aristus on Monday May 12, 2008 @05:19PM (#188013)

Yep. When the Slogger plugin came out I decided Dowser's time had come & gone.

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