- When I look at your site, I don't know what it does. As a result, I'll just go back to Google. I gather there are some special commands (which I see from clicking through the manage link, but when I do my first look and search, I don't know what any of them are. I would have a summarized version of :ls on your front page
- On that note, ls is a geek term. People here will recognize it, but "normal" people won't. Maybe replace with something more friendly like :commands
- I'm still not sure what makes your service different and special - why is it better than things like Yubnub? I'm not even 100% sure what I can do with it: maybe have some examples on the front page, with the command and what it will do for me. I know you're going for a Google-esque aesthetic, but they have huge recognition and do one thing only. You have no recognition, and do many things - hence tell me how to do some of them so that I get hooked.
- What the hell are all these icons up top in the search results? I've never seen most of them, and don't know what clicking them will do.
- Some of your Back behaviour is busted. Click on the first link on http://fefoo.com/help/commands.html about how big the earth is, and when the results have loaded, click your Back button. Why is the result window white?
- Your documentation is intimidating. There's much too much of it being thrown at me at once and with little organization, and the writing is somewhat awkward. You need someone who's a good writer to redo and edit most of your copy, and you need to do some thinking about ways to reduce the mental load on someone reading it for the first time.
Thanks, this is exactly the kind of feedback I was looking for.
- Will probably add an overlay for first time user.
- Have changed it to :help
- The main reason why I started with fefoo was to make sure that I don't have to remember search engines. There are at least 5 different source code search engines, but I doubt any one knows any other engines except Google Code Search. With fefoo you only need to figure out that you are searching for source code and you have 5 different source code search engines to choose from. Same goes for the 40 other search categories there. If a music site like Seeqpod closes down you still have 10 other music search engines to choose from.
- With the toolbar its easy to search on multiple search engines. You don't have to type the search query again and again. But I guess that needs to be specified in the overlay the first time a user searches for anything.
- The back button should work on Firefox, Chrome, Opera and IE but I would need to test it again.
- I fully agree about the part about the documentation.
- As for monetization I made the application for my own use and there is hardly any cost for me to run it. It might look like a server side application but the whole thing is made in JavaScript and once you visit the website it gets cached on the browser and works from there. This not only increases the speed but also gives you access to all the 200+ search engines. Even if you set it as the homepage it will not take more than the about:blank page to load. It acts like an extension for your browser.
- When I look at your site, I don't know what it does. As a result, I'll just go back to Google. I gather there are some special commands (which I see from clicking through the manage link, but when I do my first look and search, I don't know what any of them are. I would have a summarized version of :ls on your front page
- On that note, ls is a geek term. People here will recognize it, but "normal" people won't. Maybe replace with something more friendly like :commands
- I'm still not sure what makes your service different and special - why is it better than things like Yubnub? I'm not even 100% sure what I can do with it: maybe have some examples on the front page, with the command and what it will do for me. I know you're going for a Google-esque aesthetic, but they have huge recognition and do one thing only. You have no recognition, and do many things - hence tell me how to do some of them so that I get hooked.
- What the hell are all these icons up top in the search results? I've never seen most of them, and don't know what clicking them will do.
- Some of your Back behaviour is busted. Click on the first link on http://fefoo.com/help/commands.html about how big the earth is, and when the results have loaded, click your Back button. Why is the result window white?
- Your documentation is intimidating. There's much too much of it being thrown at me at once and with little organization, and the writing is somewhat awkward. You need someone who's a good writer to redo and edit most of your copy, and you need to do some thinking about ways to reduce the mental load on someone reading it for the first time.
- What's your monetization strategy?