I really really liked the yellow search bar, but I think you should make it point to something more useful than adding a firefox search. I personally don't use that for anything but very major searches(google, ebay, occasionally wikipedia). what if you used that bar to point to a sales special or something that can drive revenue or would be really appealing to users.
Re:Critique our startup: HeavyInk.com
by asmosoinio on Friday November 09, 2007 @03:31AM
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I have never noticed the blue glow before, and I must say it is hardly at all visible with my theme (some Vista standard):
http://screencast.com/t/bZ5XX0u1uCg
Maybe the glow is a bit more apparent in some other UIs or with other kinds of color themes?
Most users probably either don't notice or don't know what the blue glow means, so I can understand keeping the arrow, but you might as well add the autodiscovery too. Someone might do something nifty someday by crawling the web and scraping those autodiscovery links to build some sort of meta-search engine... that still wouldn't be as useful as Google, but it'd still be nifty.
http://www.opensearch.org/Specifications/OpenSearch/1.1#Auto...