My mind has been much on cupcakes, because "cupcake" was Google's fastest rising (ha ha) recipe search term in the UK in 2008 - and I own the domain cupcake.com. Which I am not going to link to here, because it's just a list of catchpenny ad links, designed and hosted for me by a partner company with which I split the revenue, and I wouldn't want you to go there. Seriously - this is an unplug.
I mention the domain just to point out that despite the soaraway popularity of cupcakes, I am in no way rolling in money as a result. Clearly, I'm doing something wrong. (Unless, of course, I'm doing everything wrong.)
So I started to wonder what an ideal "cupcake" landing place would look like. And the first thing that popped into my mind was Kosmix. Kosmix's results for "cupcake" seem to me to be right on the button. I want facts, recipes, great pictures, and reliable routes to more riches, and Kosmix gives me all that.
Now that I'm being patient enough to examine Kosmix's design, I see also that the disambiguation function is very elegantly incorporated in the layout. Maybe my habit of leaping away from a site when it's not exactly what I was looking for has dulled my appreciation of this kind of helpful signage. And so maybe getting along with Kosmix has something to do with unlearning my more twitchy search habits.
Friday, 12 December 2008
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Hey Paul :) Thanks for the new post. The disambiguation feature is hot off the press for our "beta-ish" version of the platform, and as Vijay mentioned in his blog post, the platform team is working hard to improve it in the next rev. I'm glad you liked it.
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