A Search Box for Your Posterous

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November 24, 2008

We've been hard at work completely rewriting our search system so that now you have your own search box on your posterous. You don't even have to lift a finger. It's there automatically. Shown below is featured posterous website mayisuggest.org -- if you're searching for fun, that's a great place to start your search.

This is also a great time to check out what other people are posting. We've revamped search there too, so take it for a spin.

Questions? Comments? Bug reports? As always, you can email us at help@posterous.com. We always want to hear about what you'd like to see on posterous next.

Posted by Garry Tan

Comments (10)

Nov 24, 2008

Foomandoonian said...

It's nice and unobtrusive.
I assumed when I first noticed it that you had some clever system where you automatically added the search box after x-amount of posts, because with only a few pages worth of posts, a search box is really just clutter.
Consider that a suggestion, maybe :)

Nov 24, 2008

Darrin said...

Thanks for adding this. Nice addition to myposterous

Nov 24, 2008

Garry Tan said...

@Foomandoonian Good idea. One option would be if we only show it when there are 10 or more posts.

It's a tough call because at the same time, you want to make it obvious to new users that search is available, and works by default with no extra work.

This is a good candidate for AB testing to see what people really want.

Nov 24, 2008