Gridwell search engine with those little favicons


Gridwell is a search engine designed to provide an easier interface for people to use.

The gridwell search engine does this by:

  • using a site icon (favicon.ico) against the search results
  • displaying more search results per page
  • allow navigation between search results with less mouse movement
  • simplifying the displayed search results
  • accessing search gridwell directly from the browser

If a website domain uses an icon (called favicon.ico), then this icon is displayed next to the search results, to help identify useful sites. Websites that use this icon can be found by looking next to the website URL in the browser toolbar. For example looking at the URL in browser toolbar for this page you can see a small icon favicon to the left of the URL, this icon is the one used against the search results.

The search box is on the right of the page as opposed to the top of the page. This allows more results to be displayed on a page at a given time without the need to scroll through the results, so you can get to the relevant search results quicker. You can navigate through the results without having to move the mouse, so you can get to the relevant search result quicker.

The most useful information is returned in the search results which are

  • title of web link
  • description of web link
  • name of website that link is from
  • icon if available from website that link is from

The search can be performed directly from your browser, rather than typing http://search.gridwell.com into the browser first then typing in the search.

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