Today’s Search Engine of the Day is “NoFoodHere.” nfh combines two search results features in one place. First, it has tabs across the top, so in my example I was able to not only search for my usual “test” word, “Absinthe,” but also really research it by also searching “The Green Fairy,” “La Fee Verte,” “Thujone,” “Wormwood,” “The Absinthe Ritual,” and “Buy Absinthe,” all on one page!

All of the results do not show together, but it does save them, and it’s very fluid; as you tab back and forth the results quickly change in response.

The other feature is “continuous scrolling;” so as you roll your mouse down a list, the list keeps going, and going, and going! If you can’t see it well, the image I have here is of result #500 – without ever leaving the page.

Finally, the tongue-in-cheek FAQs were fun to read, so I’ll just let Jordan speak for himself.

What on earth is NoFoodHere???

NoFoodHere is a futuristic search engine created by time-traveling chickens from the 4.5th dimension. Just kidding. It’s not quite that exciting. NoFoodHere is an experiment in creating a new, improved search engine. Since the beginning of the Internet (and web searching), the web has changed, but search engine pages largely haven’t. NoFoodHere is a modern search engine that uses Web 2.0 technology to stream search results, instead of displaying them page-by-page. It incorporates tabbed searching.NoFoodHere is being developed by a small team (of 1 ) in Melbourne, Australia.

Why are you doing this?

For fun. Because I can. Because it is a Good Idea (TM), and nobody else is doing it. To start a trend of re-designing search engine interfaces. Oh, and why not?

How do you make money out of this?
I don’t.

How can we advertise on this site?
You can’t.

Which search engine’s results do you use?
This beta version uses the Yahoo! dataset (due to limitation with other search engines APIs. Unfortunately, this beta version is limited to 5,000 queries/day.

Why is this service limited to 5,000 queries/day?
This is a limitation imposed by the Yahoo! Web Search API service. There are plans to migrate to a different service or otherwise remove this restriction ASAP.

Where is the next page link at the bottom of the search results?
There isn’t one! just scroll down the page and more results will ‘magically’ appear!

What are these wacky colored things at the top of the page?
These are tabs. You can click on any tab, and then search the web. This lets you have up to 8 searches running at the same time.

And my standard question: where did you get that crazy name? The reply:

Hi Charles,

The name “NoFoodHere” was chosen because it is different to most search engine names out there, and we really wanted something unique and that users could remember.

The name came about when I was doing some coding. It was around lunch time and I was getting hungry and was typing and “NoFoodHere” just came out, and we decided to stick with it!

Hope that answers your question.

Regards,

Jordan

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