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Keyboardr - the new Google?

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eclix

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Apr 7, 2009
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Dorset, England
keyboardr.com

It's the first search engine I've see that actively displays results, without having to press enter or anything. More like a launcher than a search engine.
It picks the top results from Google, Google Images, Google Blogs and Youtube all as you type.

I guess technically it's not a stand alone search engine, but I just CAN'T go back to the somewhat primitive *type then press enter then if you don't get the right results go back and start all over again* like the official google.

Is anybody else using this?
I'm interested to see how well known this site is.

This really is the future of Googling as far as I can see.

Who here has heard of/is using this?

*EDIT*

Oh, also... it's called "keyboardr" because you can navigate everything very easily with the keyboard, thus eliminating the need for a mouse, and wasting valuable Googling time :)

It's being developed by Julius Eckert, the guy that did the Showcase and Bezel HUD skins for Quicksilver.
That guy's so talented. I want to be his friend!
 
I searched my username, pretty impressive, it showed a youtube video I'd put up, various images I'd posted on MacRumors plus various sites that had my username on (obviously)
 
Or the Search feature in Vista, or in iTunes. Or in a lotta stuff..

I figured Google would've done something like this about a year or two ago.
 
just think how much more server load that would create on a scale such as googles though... having to do individual searches as letters are typed. Considering the amount of people that use google, it would be a huge cost to them.
 
Real-time search was one of the cited reasons Teh Big G wanted to buy out Twitter I heard.

I hope Twitter doesn't sell out so soon.
 
notsofatjames said:
just think how much more server load that would create on a scale such as googles though... having to do individual searches as letters are typed. Considering the amount of people that use google, it would be a huge cost to them.
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Hmm... okay, I just had kept an eye on my network speeds as I was using this, and it uses about 5-7 kb/s up, 15-20 kb/s down.
Which isn't that bad!
It's still lighter work than the average webpage.
 
Seems pretty cool.

Though you could just come out and say you're affiliated with it, couldn't you!? You only joined today after all! :D
 
Come on now, gill aint that bad... One of my friends lives there, went to Yeovil College with him, I'm from near Crewkerne/Yeovil area. Yeah I did write the songs in my sig.
 
never hear of it until now. I'd say they'd have to really work on the marketing to get any foot print, but I like it. I like the spotlight-esk way it runs. Mainly I love how minimal it is. Google although clean and uncluttered has too much BS. I like just the simple mono font, time and search bar, that's all I want in a search engine.

I totally made it my home page, haven't even had a home page in years.
 
Has anyone noticed it's actually running off of Google anyway.. So surely there's a very minimal server load required here...

After thinking about it, I'd love to see google buy this, and present it as an alternate Google page, like and inbetweener to the main google.com page and the iGoogle web widget orientated page
 
It's a good idea, but I don't think it'll get very popular with that name. Not verb-friendly enough. "I tried Keyboardring it and found my answer" doesn't sound catchy at all.
 
That is pretty sweet! Thanks for posting. It would seem that Google developed this, which shocks me that they didn't.
 
I'm sorry but I had to laugh at

I just CAN'T go back to the somewhat primitive *type then press enter then if you don't get the right results go back and start all over again*
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Oh no, having to press enter twice!
 
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