Quick.as -- Better Than Google
Quick.as is now available in public beta. Quick.as allows access to the search results from other sites in the one convenient location. It provides better information than Google (or at very least the same); and after the commands become second nature, it allows access to the information quicker and with less mental processing.
Melbourne, Australia (PRWEB) May 8, 2008 -- Quick.as is now available in public beta. If it is known where a search should be performed, use Quick.as Search. Put a command (keyboard shortcut of sorts) in front to dictate what site is searched. Eg. "w Rick Astley" goes to Rick Astley's Wikipedia entry. One less page load, plus less lurching from keyboard to mouse, plus less mental processing, equals time saving, which equals better than Google. Even if people don't know where to search, they can leave out a command and it does a Google search.
Google's well known mission is, "To organize the worlds information". They do a pretty decent job at this, at least better than any other company. For that information to be useful, people then need to access the information. For the most part Google does a pretty decent job at this too. It implies that there are actually two components to Google's core offering:
- Organization of information; and
- Easy access to information.
Organization of Information
Google is fantastic for gathering information on topics that have not broached before. But what if it has been broached the topic before? What if the search if for information that is known to be found in a certain location? It would make sense to go directly to that location. People are becoming more familiar with the web and are, in general, a little more discerning. This is what Quick.as allows, and is a premise around which Quick.as was built.
- Who wrote "Confessions of and Economic Hitman" and what other books has he written? - search amazon.com
- How do I do a regular expression search in PHP (a programming language)? - search php.net
- What is the population of Toronto? - search wikipedia.com
Quick.as (http://quick.as) allows a "command" (a keyboard shortcut of sorts) to be put in front of a search term and it will go directly to the search results of a particular site. Where Google is a "search" site, Quick.as is a "location" site.
Of course, if no "command" is put in front of a search term, it simply returns the Google search results. So at very least, using Quick.as to search the web is never going to require more time and mental processing than using Google.
Easy Access to Information
Raef Akehurst of Quick.as explains, "You could go to Google and do a search but if you know what you want is on Wikipedia (for example), that is an extra page load, requires mental processing, and most likely means time-consuming, lurching from mouse to keyboard and back." A search on Quick.as avoids this. It gets browsers there quicker.
The time saving might not seem like much, but once the frequently used commands become second nature, the small productivity gain per search aggregates into a significant time saving over an extended period.
Quick.as also has "Quick Links" which are like bookmarks that appear on the page. They can be customized and have keyboard shortcuts too. This is a further productivity gain as the majority of sites people visit are frequented regularly (e.g. social networking, web based email, news, etc.). It minimizes mental processing (no need to remember the URL or select the site form bookmarks) and time-consuming, lurching from mouse to keyboard and back again applies here. This is discussed quite eloquently in an article called "Return of the Keyboard Shortcut" (http://itmanagement.earthweb.com/datbus/article.php/3742536).
Quick.as allows access the search results from other sites in the one convenient location. It provides better information than Google (or in the worst case scenario it is the same as using Google). Further, after using it for a little while (and the commands become second nature), Quick.as will allow access to the information quicker and with less mental processing.
ABOUT BEEP INTERACTIVE PTY. LTD.
Quick.as is a brand of Beep Interactive Pty. Ltd (www.beepinteractive.com). Beep was founded by Raef Akehurst and Karl Edwards in 2004. They operate smsGeezer.com (an online bulk SMS sending service, Recordle.com (a service allowing you to record audio, video and take photos directly from a web site), and previously operated 19secret.com (a service that allowed you to send anonymous and masked SMS). Beep aims to keep things simple - make things easy to use. They develop and deploy web and mobile solutions across an array of different platforms and technologies.
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