I'm really curious what the HN community thinks about Privacy by Design, and also the tradeoff between keeping all of the exact data on all your users' behavior vs. keeping summary data that obscures most of the details while getting most of the benefit.
Hey Greg, we met a few years back in SF. Two [edit: three] small bits of feedback: I would suggest that you consider browsing without JavaScript (I guess a relatively huge segment of your audience, re: privacy concerns?) and also have obvious contact details or info about Blekko itself visually accessible from the main page. A ~live sparklinesque graph of search volumes or other upward metrics might also appeal and provide free marketing. [Third point: your default/suggested searches are culturally insensitive. How about putting in some consulted time for topic recommendations for non-US countries?] PS. Congrats on the recent round of investment!
We are adding contact & privacy policy info to the homepage footer today, and non-US countries should be getting different, much less US-centric topic recommendations -- in both cases I was the guy that insisted that we do it that way! :-)
