WhyNot?

Better Search Engine Links

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When searching the web, you are apt to get a lengthy list of results which you have to read one by one if you want to find the most promising.

It would be trivial for a search engine to display the links in different colors corresponding to the domain names. For example, pages from dot-coms would still be in black, but dot-org would be in green, dot-gov in blue, and so on. The result would if anything make the search engine's looks slicker, and add no clutter.

Nevertheless, such a tiny change would make it possible to locate non-dot-com sites in an instant, if (as is frequently the case) such sites are more likely than dot-com sites to contain the type of information you are looking for.

MichaelDehn, Nov 19 2006

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I like this idea. You could add a sort by button that would align the different type sites in the order you would like them to appear.

bkeene12, Nov 19 2006