When the search suggestions pops up, it sometimes causes a scrollbar to be needed for the page, which makes the whole page shift by a few pixels. I could see this getting annoying for a user. There is an easy fix; add "body {overflow-y: scroll}" to the css.
Switching to different results pages (1-10 to 11-20, for example), the ajax is convenient but because you are contracting the old results and expanding the new ones at the same time. I would try doing one after the other (either expand the new results and then contract the old ones, or vice versa.)
The name sansj is not something that would stick in my memory, but I am curious to know what it means.
Bonus points for having Canada as a region, but I wonder why there is no US? Do you intend for "all world" to be mainly US?
The search results are a bit cluttered, you might want to think about what parts of the results are important to your users and stick the rest in a "more info" box (shown on mousover, perhaps) or something.
The results aren't quite as good as other search engines, but since it is community powered it should improve over time. A search for "blog hosting" revealed no relevant links in the "voted results", but most of the top 10 results were relevant. Did you build your own index, or do you use an API? If its your own index, I am impressed with the quality of results, considering you don't have the resources that the search giants do.
I have added your CSS fix, thanks for your tip.
I would have to do some changes to the results Slider and the overall results display.
SansJ: Sans-Junk (that's the idea :))
Most of the search results come from a search API (that's why the index is pretty decent), did not think of adding US until you mentioned it!
You are right about "Voted Results" getting better as more people start using the site.I intentionally decided not to tweak the search algorithm as that would be contrary to the idea of Social Search in my view. I did to try to experiment on this page :http://trk7.com/ask/mysearch3.php?sstring=blog+hosting&submit=&co=all , check it out, one can move the slider to left to display less reults that are more relevant.
The slider is really useful and cool (I like the effects as well), I did not see it the first time around. You might want to add a description of some sort so that people don't miss it or get confused about what it does.
Switching to different results pages (1-10 to 11-20, for example), the ajax is convenient but because you are contracting the old results and expanding the new ones at the same time. I would try doing one after the other (either expand the new results and then contract the old ones, or vice versa.)
The name sansj is not something that would stick in my memory, but I am curious to know what it means.
Bonus points for having Canada as a region, but I wonder why there is no US? Do you intend for "all world" to be mainly US?
The search results are a bit cluttered, you might want to think about what parts of the results are important to your users and stick the rest in a "more info" box (shown on mousover, perhaps) or something.
The results aren't quite as good as other search engines, but since it is community powered it should improve over time. A search for "blog hosting" revealed no relevant links in the "voted results", but most of the top 10 results were relevant. Did you build your own index, or do you use an API? If its your own index, I am impressed with the quality of results, considering you don't have the resources that the search giants do.