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Snaplist » Blog Archive » Wisdump: Snap.com - Homepage Critique — Thu, 25 May 2006 05:45:02 +0000

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Snap.com Review » Wisdump — Fri, 19 May 2006 19:54:57 +0000

[...] A couple of days ago when I posted my tiny design critique of Snap’s homepage Jason Santa Maria almost wrote today’s review for me. [...]

By: kenobi

kenobi — Thu, 18 May 2006 23:54:07 +0000

Not exactly a Google killer is it?

By: Marco

Marco — Thu, 18 May 2006 15:30:22 +0000

I look at Snap as a nice ‘tech demo’ of the shape of things to come in the not-so-distant future. Right now it feels slow, bloated and there’s design flaws that Jason already mentioned.

It’s not at all a contender to Google, not even close. I liked playing with it but before I’d use this as my primary search engine a LOT will have to change ;)

By: Jon Henshaw

Jon Henshaw — Thu, 18 May 2006 15:29:35 +0000

Jason Santa Maria said exactly what I was thinking, “Snap is a waste of space. Itâ€™s so slow and bloated, it renders itself practically useless. I donâ€™t need a search engine to load in big images for the results, just give me the damn information!”

By: JC

JC — Wed, 17 May 2006 20:33:01 +0000

Darn, and I came here to post what Eddie already said.

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Wed, 17 May 2006 18:50:12 +0000

Hmm, that’s even worse then now isn’t it Eddie. I will have to play with it at different resolutions to see how it really works out. I guess I assumed that since it scaled with my browser window it was purely liquid, but maybe they have a min-width stuck in there somewhere.

By: Eddie Sowden

Eddie Sowden — Wed, 17 May 2006 18:41:23 +0000

You say that it needs using at a smaller resolution however, I am sitting here in an 800px wide browser (I always surf 800px wide) and the links and the word search just go off the side. I dont even get the “show top news headlines” link. The way they have done it there isnt even a scroll bar so I can see what is going on over there.

By: Jason Santa Maria

Jason Santa Maria — Wed, 17 May 2006 17:44:49 +0000

“…itâ€™s not that hard to find the links at the bottom of the page, since thereâ€™s nothing else to see.”

That’s just it, in the search engine space even “not that hard” is too hard. Especially when you are going up against something like Google. It wouldn’t be that bad if the small links were the greatest offender.

By: Scrivs

Scrivs — Wed, 17 May 2006 17:33:44 +0000

True a big search box is pretty self-explanatory, but it’s what happens after the search box that might confuse a lot of people.