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A number of users have reported a conflict between the latest version of WebMynd (0.9.1) which was released on addons.mozilla.org on Tuesday and various toolbars. The main symptom is that custom buttons from other addons that are usually displayed in the urlbar disappear after install. We’ve now fixed this problem and you can download a [...]


As the RedesignGoogle gallery has continued to grow, we’ve been working on ways to make our tools more flexible for designers and more compelling for users. So far, RedesignGoogle has only allowed designers to modify the style sheet of the Google results page, but we’re taking that a huge step further: designers can now embed [...]


One of the most common bits of feedback we’ve heard from our users is that the WebMynd add-on makes search results slower to load. Nothing is more important to search than speed,  and this has been a source of irritation for us too. So it was the first thing we set out to improve with [...]


The rules for the RedesignGoogle competition are now up. You can read them here.


RedesignGoogle

16Sep09

One of our key goals at WebMynd is to give you more control over your search experience. Our first steps toward that were to outfit our add-on with our own set of customizable search interfaces. Now we’re excited to announce our next step: RedesignGoogle. RedesignGoogle lets you completely customize the look of Google Search by [...]


Available in the new 0.9 release of the WebMynd Firefox add-on are two new experimental search interfaces, Manhattan and Osaka: These new interfaces were designed based on some of the feedback we received on our first experimental interface, Phoenix. In contrast to Phoenix, which minimizes visual clutter by only presenting the top three results from [...]


We’ve been working on some exciting new features over the last few weeks. One of them is Phoenix, an experimental new search interface that offers the functionality of Google and the WebMynd sidebar with a clean and engaging look and feel. Phoenix is the first of several new interfaces we’re working on. Our hope is [...]


Most software projects start with a nice, clean, compartmentalised architecture, whether real or imagined. As implementation progresses, the lines between components tend to blur as unforeseen dependencies emerge and edge cases are dealt with. However, by the time it comes to deployment, you’ll probably still have a number of separate packages, with some (hopefully acyclic) [...]


WebMynd helps you to find, and keep track of, information from sources you value most by personalizing the right-hand side of Google, Yahoo! and Live Search results pages. We’re launching a number of new features today – you can see a demo and download the latest version from webmynd.com. Embed the sources you most value [...]


To add to the customized WebMynd that we created for Fluther we now have versions available for OneRiot and Hacker News as well. This means there are more ways for users to discover WebMynd and more examples of how WebMynd can help publishers make their content more useful for their users by giving their search [...]