Ideas for Improvements
Besides being in urgent need of a better graphical design, our application could use some features to be more than a quick redirect to Wikipedia results:
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Let the user bookmark particular results. You could add a little star next to every result in the list so that when the user clicks, it saves that result as a favorite. You could make the star into its own widget. Extra points if you use some persistent API (reactively!), such as Local Storage or IndexedDB.
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Show a “preview” of a result on the right side of the screen if the user clicks the link, with a synopsis and some meta information about it. If the user wants to go to the actual Wikipedia result, you can have a Read More link in it. Implement it as a widget. ...
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