scandoo

Grey Icons

We've has a couple of e-mails asking:

What is this grey icon? You don't see them very often?

It's one of our testing icons that lets our development team know to look into something - We don't think they'll be around for too much longer, we are working on it! (Scandoo is still a beta product). As part of the new bubble we have also rolled out an upgrade to the scanners, so they find risks faster and help deliver the content in the bubble more reliably, and this is part of the development of that component.

What does this mean for you? 

On the infrequent occasions they do appear, exercise the same caution you would if you didn't have a Scandoo icon.  But don't worry for most searches you won't come across them.

Bubble Bubble!

We've been busy over the last few weeks in Scandoo's labs and today released a major upgrade to the service - one we're really proud of.  It's a new speech bubble.  It's quite a bit different as it should load faster, and look a darn sight clearer.  (We're fans of elegant minimalism here!). We've added some icons to help make it easier to see which content category we've classed the site as. We're still tweaking it, so it might change a little over the next few days.

However, Scandoo isn't just about being pretty. It's quite smart too. (We actually scan every page to deliver our security and content opinions.) Long term this new bubble will mean we can offer you some great new features, such as contextually specific content in the bubble while you surf. The bubble is now tabbed, so we can show this new info, in the same space. 

We've got some ideas as to what we think would be useful content, but we'd love to hear what you'd like to see in the pop-up - what specific information about the site, e.g. has this site been on digg? are there any relevant myspace profiles? what do other sites say about this content?  are there related searches? Drop us a line as a comment or an e-mail - we'd love to hear from you!