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Able Grape - a wine knowledge search engine.
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:08 pm
by KMP
No, this is not an engine to find the best price on your favorite wine, but you can find out pretty much everything else about wine. At least that seems to be their plan.
Able Grape is in beta and
I've only played with it for a few hours, but its a whole lot more selective than Google!
Enjoy,
Mike
No, I am not affiliated with Able Grape - wish I was.
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:59 pm
by danclarke
thanks mike. pretty cool
Posted: Fri Feb 15, 2008 9:14 pm
by Wayno
Agreed. This seems very useful.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:36 am
by SueNZ
Wouldn't let me search, even though I'm using Firefox 2.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 9:59 am
by Red Bigot
SueNZ wrote:Wouldn't let me search, even though I'm using Firefox 2.
Works fine for me in Firefox 2, you have to enable Javascript, Tools, Options, Content, check the Enable Java script box.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:01 am
by bob parsons
Just had a quick looksie. Looks full of interest and will alert folks over here!!
It certainly seems very fast, I searched "bc wines" and up it came 22,000 hits.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 10:16 am
by SueNZ
Red Bigot wrote:SueNZ wrote:Wouldn't let me search, even though I'm using Firefox 2.
Works fine for me in Firefox 2, you have to enable Javascript, Tools, Options, Content, check the Enable Java script box.
Actually got it to work by using the 'examples' - it worked on 'spain' but not on 'climate change'. The once the results page came up, I could then use the search box. Weird!
On testing, it seems that one word is OK, but two is not when starting, but once past that hurdle, two words work.
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 12:58 pm
by KMP
SueNZ wrote:Red Bigot wrote:SueNZ wrote:Wouldn't let me search, even though I'm using Firefox 2.
Works fine for me in Firefox 2, you have to enable Javascript, Tools, Options, Content, check the Enable Java script box.
Actually got it to work by using the 'examples' - it worked on 'spain' but not on 'climate change'. The once the results page came up, I could then use the search box. Weird!
On testing, it seems that one word is OK, but two is not when starting, but once past that hurdle, two words work.
It worked with two words (decanting shiraz) for me.
The site is in beta, so let them know about any problems.
Mike
Posted: Sat Feb 16, 2008 1:43 pm
by Maximus
Hi Mike,
Thanks for the heads up - a neat little resource.
Cheers,
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 9:34 am
by bob parsons
Yeah, I am finding it great. I searched two obscure Burgundy vigneronnes, Paul Pillot and Bernard Bachelet, and got a ton of info!!
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:15 pm
by bob parsons
Mike, who is the brains behind this???
Bob P
Posted: Sun Feb 17, 2008 6:44 pm
by Red Bigot
bob parsons wrote:Mike, who is the brains behind this???
Bob P
Have a look on the Blog.
http://ablegrape.wordpress.com/about/
Posted: Wed May 14, 2008 7:04 am
by dougcook
Just found this discussion as I was looking through Able Grape's referrer logs.
First, thanks for all the kind words -- I sincerely hope you find Able Grape useful.
Second, I wanted to ask if anyone had other comments or suggestions (or if anyone had any additional browser trouble; I'd like to hear about it).
Please don't be shy -- we've made a number of improvements based upon user feedback so far (from improving relevance and adding thousands of new sites to creating a browser plugin and customizable search preferences). So if you have thoughts or suggestions, please post them! (and if you'd like to keep up with the improvements as we make them, you can now register as well).
Kind regards
Doug Cook
Able Grape