Ask HN: Review our site Aylay.it (opens in new tab)

You know you are heading down the wrong track with this when you say "searches Wikipedia, Twitter, and more..."

Please tell me one search engine that doesn't search these. It's almost like you are calling out a weakness in your product.

Google doesn't search Wikipedia and Twitter and more. They search everything, and if you are going to be in the search game, you better follow suit.

"Aylay is built on the collective intelligence of the Web. With Aylay Agile Search, start searching and get results simultaneously from the sites you know and trust, instantly. Refine your search and get results in real time without leaving the page."

That's quite a bit of marketese. None of that really tells me what it does. Is it a search engine? Does it search for trending topics? Is it a news aggregator?

I did a search for BioShock 2 and that showed me what it did. I think some better home copy would be "See search results from Google, Wikipedia, Twitter, Digg and more, all on one page." or maybe "Search multiple sites and see their results all on one page."

It's actually a pretty cool service though. I don't like the custom scrollbars on the results though. They just aren't standard enough. Maybe add a slider type function, or just a normal scrollbar.

I find it disappointing in its current form. I assume you aren't doing much more than a few ajaxified api calls to the 5 or so engines you're aggregating which is neither technically challenging nor technically interesting.

However, if you applied relative rankings for the individual items from each engine and aggregated them into a single results page instead of multiple "framed" result sections, you might have something I would actually want to use. This would also overcome many of the usability and UI problems I find issue with.

It certainly has potential to become something.

Ideally you should develop a "velocity" kind of ranking similar to http://www.oursignal.com and merge in results, instead of simply displaying them in individual boxes. That way a user can work out which is the most popular/relevant entry overall, not the most relevant per site.

Pretty cool site, unfortunately there were some strange side effects from searching.

a. 20% was injected between my words

b. I searched for "Income of women in India" and got the wikipedia entry for the United States.

I like being able to decide which search I want to look at however - very cool.

Thanks. I searched for one of my sites, and found a "how to hack [site name]" video on YouTube I didn't know was there. It wasn't actually a hack, just a silly JavaScript trick to disable a upgrade nag graphic, but I never would've noticed that video otherwise.

Not bad, add reddit as well?

why would anyone want to use this?