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mburney
Would have preferred more info on the search page rather than having to click "About"
benologist
I like the favicons being included. Makes it really easy to identify familiar sites.

Overall it feels like a really nice design, but I can't pinpoint why exactly. Might be because Google's strayed so far from the original and simple interface.

ELV1S
Inspired by Yandex, I've made Faviconize Google user script, which adds favicons to the Google's search result page.

User script: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/58177

Chrome extension: https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fijobgpmmkilncag...

gojomo
Yandex appears to load the favicons from their own cache. If your extension hits the sites themselves, you're leaking the fact that they are appearing in a person's search results to the target sites... and maybe even the query terms, via the referrer header. You should probably mention that fact to users who might not deduce it themselves.
fretlessjazz
=~ s/y/sp/

...does anyone else have a tough time getting past that?

wooster
Looks good.

The favicons increase page load times without adding a whole lot. I'd delay their loads via Javascript, if possible.

Edit: Getting a fairly consistent crash in Safari after trying to enable resource tracking in web inspector:

  0   com.apple.WebCore             	0x00007fff84c975fb WebCore::SecurityOrigin::canAccess(WebCore::SecurityOrigin const*) const + 27
  1   com.apple.WebCore             	0x00007fff84ce166e WebCore::allowsAccessFromFrame(JSC::ExecState*, WebCore::Frame*) + 174
  2   com.apple.WebCore             	0x00007fff84d771cb WebCore::checkNodeSecurity(JSC::ExecState*, WebCore::Node*) + 27
  3   com.apple.WebCore             	0x00007fff84d84302 WebCore::jsDOMWindowFrameElement(JSC::ExecState*, JSC::Identifier const&, JSC::PropertySlot const&) + 306
  4   com.apple.WebCore             	0x00007fff850528cd WebCore::JSQuarantinedObjectWrapper::getOwnPropertySlot(JSC::ExecState*, JSC::Identifier const&, JSC::PropertySlot&) + 253
  5   com.apple.JavaScriptCore      	0x00007fff808ffb26 JSC::JSValue::get(JSC::ExecState*, JSC::Identifier const&, JSC::PropertySlot&) const + 486
kqueue
I'll stick with google for now, at least it finds pg's wire transfer pdf when I look for RM9637.00
chaosmachine
I wonder how many Googlebot hits per hour HN gets... everything seems to be indexed almost instantly.

http://imgur.com/kAPls.png

jacquesm
The homepage is indexed about 12 times per day as far as I can measure it. I've never managed to get an age > 2 hours for the links posted there.
ringm
Yandex has been #1 in Russian speaking segment of the internet for the last 10 years or so. I use it almost every day. It looks like this expansion into English speaking market is just an experiment, and I'm not sure what they are trying to achieve. It doesn't look like they can compete with Google or Bing.

edit: btw, one of the interesting features Yandex provides and Google still doesn't is street view for Russian cities: http://maps.yandex.ru/-/CFfz7mA.

vaksel
i've used it to search for russian stuff before, not really a fan of the interface....looks too much like yahoo circa 15 years ago
csytan
I've noticed your crawler frequently on my site. Is it following from HN?

P.s. Good luck!

adam-_-
Unfortunately I get redirected to the mobile version of the Russian site...
arethuza
Interesting - my first search (for hyperion) brought back more interesting results than Google. Not a very scientific study, but that's the first time that has happened to me since I first used Google and searched for java and actually found something about the programming language.

The favicons are a good idea - they do make scanning the list of results a lot easier, even if the overall layout of the page is a bit weird.

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ScottWhigham
For those who don't want Yandex to include you:

User-agent: Yandex Disallow: /

garply
I really like their Ctrl + → keybinding for next page (although, much like on DuckDuckGo) I find the favicons distracting).
goodness
Hmm, started with a vanity search and got totally irrelevant results. Then tried vanity searches with friends names. Again, bad results. Putting the names in quotes seems to do a better job, so the problem doesn't seem to be coverage. Makes it seem like they may not be doing a very good pagerank-like calculation.
jorgecastillo
I will try it for a few days and see if I can substitute Google. I always try new search engines but none seem to be as good as Google.