Starting now, you find an new icon in the upper right corner of every search result on MetaScroll:
By clicking this icon, you can get a quick preview of the page behind the link, without ever visiting it:
This helps you find the right site for your search, without revealing your IP to different websites and multiple ad/tracking providers along the way. Try it out!
Technical details
This feature is implemented using the freshly available PhantomJS software. PhantomJS is basically a headless Webkit browser, which can be controlled using JavaScript. Wrapped inside a special little NodeJS webserver (for some caching and stuff), PhantomJS is used to generate the screenshot for a given URL, which then is delivered to the user by NodeJS. This sure will be the starting point for many other great features. Stay tuned!
