A few years back when Google was just an upstart in the search engine market and my search engine of choice was InfoSeek, I had an idea to make searching more user-friendly. I was just starting to come to grips with the power of Boolean search queries and wanted a way to hide this from the user. My idea was to slap a front end over top search engines such as InfoSeek and AltaVista and embed it somehow into Internet Explorer.
This way, a searcher could answer a few questions on a form, and under the covers, the software would perform its magic and gin up complex Boolean search queries in order to bring back ultra-relevant search results.