Dual Pane - Formal Proposal Thread

[admin]

BTW, when I google Dual Pane XY comes up as #5 of 223.000.000.

[Pagat]

over here you are even #4!
so either you gained one place in the last 20 minutes or there are differences between the "austrian" and the "german" version of google results...

[tedy]

Fifth position here too.
If we take into account the "sub"-positions, then it is 6th.

[TheQwerty]

Forth here, but you're the first file manager.

Unfortunately you don't rank in the first page on "dual pane file manager" or "dual pane explorer replacement" here.

[Mesh]

Well, DP aside, the average person isn't going to be searching for "dual pane" as their first set of search terms. More to the point, searching for "file manager" yields XY showing the 9th spot, and that's a lot more useful for the general populace.

[ugus]

Number four here
but this link is number one...

XYplorer 8.00 released with DUAL PANES (!) - DonationCoder.com

[j_c_hallgren]

I have my Google customized to search only 8 languages (Danish and Dutch and English and French and German and Italian and Norwegian and Swedish pages ) and "dual pane" gets me XY as 4th, but 1st File Mgr...

When I did "dual pane file manager", XY shows as first of 501K!

But...I wouldn't take that for granted as I kinda suspect Google skews results based on a users prior history and searches so it may not show as same on another system.

[tedy]

I think it's kinda speculation we have here.
Or at least it is just a chance.
By "dual pane file manager" I don't see XY in the first 50-60 results at all.
With "file manager" XY appears somewhere on the 30th place.
It is quite understandable, there aren't more than dozen or two popular file managers out there.
And I think Dual Pane is what attracts many users, I think XY will become more popular after v8.00.
For years I was looking for a file manager, primarily dual paned, I don't remember to have tested XY before, maybe because it wasn't DP back then.
It is a matter of SEO but I don't think current results are bad.
By the way, many users look at the interface first and if they didn't like it, they won't look further.
I recommended XY to few of my friends. Two of them stated that the interface is not configurable enough, especially the toolbar is small and not dockable enough. The several panels we have in the GUI, they think should have some tiny title bar with a X for close or something. Well, this is not a shortcoming for me (even the opposite) but for them...
Give them some fancy toolbar and ways to move it around and the AB as well, and you'll win people like the two .