This morning I stumbled upon an interesting search engine that let users search using only the keyboard. Although keyboardr.com was launched sometime November last year, I think its worth sharing to you readers. According to Julius Eckert (the mind behind the search engine), Keyboardr is a meta-search. Users will get Google, Wikipedia, Youtube altogether. The instant search and the keyboard navigation are replacing the feeling of “searching” with the feeling of “launching”. For a search geek like me, it can speed up searching. It is as simple as going to the site and start typing... yes no mouse needed. It is like an auto search facility where user just type anything on the textbox and records that matches the string will be automatically displayed.
I tried searching for the words "Fryan Digital World" and it dynamically shows related results as shown below.
You can navigate from the search results just by using your keyboard's arrow keys and pressing "enter" key will open the selected result on a new window (popup blocker must be disabled). On his blog, Eckert mentioned several enhancements that he envision to incorporate to Keyboardr. Overall the site was pretty good, it spices up my today's search experience.
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