Wundrbar ist wunderbar!
Wundrbar gets asked plenty of questions.
Here are some of the more answerable ones…
Can Wundrbar _________?
Check out this list of actions to see everything that’s already hooked into Wundrbar.
With Wundrbar, you can…
Are you indexing the web?
No, we’re not building a huge index of billions of web pages. We’ll let other people handle that. We’re providing an interface so you can do the things you want online more quickly and easily than ever before.
How are you interpreting commands?
Are you doing some kind of natural language processing?
We’re not tackling natural language processing - so don’t type a complete sentence into Wundrbar and expect us to understand it! But we are processing your commands with more intelligence than any other search bar, so we can help you get what you want faster. As for how we do that - well, we don’t want to give away all our secrets, but we’re using custom implementations of well-known algorithms along with a few off-the-shelf tools. With plenty of regex in the mix, too.
Do you guys know Yubnub?
How does Wundrbar compare?
Yes, we are big fans of Yubnub - it’s an awesome tool. Wundrbar and Yubnub share the goal of making it quicker and easier to use the web, and both offer a single search box as an interface. Wundrbar has a broader scope than Yubnub and aims to be far more intuitive.
Yubnub is more like the traditional UNIX command line, which is powerful but not intuitive, because it requires a very particular syntax and / or flagged parameters. With Wundrbar, you can perform an action by using a wide range of shortcuts and keywords, and the parameters are automagically figured out. For example, try out a flight search with Wundrbar - all the parameters are grabbed as you enter your search. In addition, Wundrbar manages your logins, so that you can use Wundrbar to manage your personal accounts from any computer, from email, or even by text message (those features coming soon!).
So Wundrbar is basically a command line for the web?
Yes and no. We at Wundrbar have a lot of respect for the command line interface - it’s fast and powerful. However, it’s not intuitive. Unless you use some command every week, then you have to dig through the man page to figure out how to use it again, you know? And that’s not convenient. So we’ve built Wundrbar to get past that problem - so you don’t have to remember particular keywords, or the order of parameters, or the parameter flags. Can you imagine a UNIX flight search command? It might look like ‘flightsearch -from sfo -to nyc -leave 6/1/08 -return 6/8/08′. With Wundrbar, that becomes ‘fly sfo nyc june 6 to june 8′ - or many variations thereof!
Does Wundrbar come in any other flavors?
Sure thing. Head on over to our extras page for the Firefox search plugin and toolbar. Soon we’ll have an iPhone app, a Facebook app, maybe a 12-can fridge-pack… well, we’ll start with the apps.
Wait, I don’t get it.
If I can use Wundrbar as a shortcut for everything else, why would I ever need another search engine?
You do get it!
Now, take a look at their excellent demo video!
