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Re:Announcing Duck It, a new way to search by anigbrowl on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @12:53PM (#919827)
Impressive results, and unlike others I like your branding overall.

Minor complaints: it is a bit garish, color-wise - maybe dial down the saturation and white a bit. Fonts are too big, I prefer more info and don't need to read from across the room. On Chrome, as the page fills it starts gently scrolling down and search box slides of the screen...oops. The 'web links' section is getting kind of lost and most people won't notice it exists.

Finally, I don't like 'Zero-click Info tm' - I hate 'TMs' and you don't have one on your logo, so why here? Second, it's a service mark, not a trade mark. Third, it's only an element in your service, and branding it strongly competes with your primary DDG brand and creates pointless confusion for the user.

but overall I really like it, and think the quality of the results is very high. I will use and recommend regularly. If you are going to commercialize it with ads or the like, do so early so people don't call you a sellout later. Excellent job!

Re:Announcing Duck It, a new way to search by aristoxenus on Tuesday November 03, 2009 @04:20PM (#920318)
Seconding the wish for smaller presentation -- think you're a bit below the sweet spot on the info-per-square-inch curve. I feel pretty hampered.