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Re: Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

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Post by fivesigma »

hellcow wrote: post #25
fivesigma wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm afraid not. It's the major differentiator, otherwise it'd be the same as everything else out there.

Are you testing the value or user demand for that feature? I agree with the GP. Screenshots reduce information density, increase bandwidth (load time), and for me take even longer to visually parse than a text result. That is, they interfere with what I consider to be the most important things I need from a search engine. Having screenshots populate over time as they load moves my eyes around the page and acts as a d…

I think it works better than text in some types of searches (shopping for example). Distraction isn't really a problem once you've used it for a while. Again, different strokes.

Re: Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

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Post by woah »

hellcow wrote: post #25
fivesigma wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm afraid not. It's the major differentiator, otherwise it'd be the same as everything else out there.

Are you testing the value or user demand for that feature? I agree with the GP. Screenshots reduce information density, increase bandwidth (load time), and for me take even longer to visually parse than a text result. That is, they interfere with what I consider to be the most important things I need from a search engine. Having screenshots populate over time as they load moves my eyes around the page and acts as a d…

Hovering over the link to get a screenshot is a completely different dynamic and doesn't seem to save much time over just clicking on the link and seeing for yourself. This gives you a high level overview. I just tried it with a search for some information about linux network drivers and I was able to read the text on the screenshots without opening any of them.

Also Google is notorious for putting out half-baked prototypes and quickly abandoning them, so it might very well be that the concept does better with a more dedicated team. I'm going to give this a shot for a few days and see how it is.

Re: Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

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Post by soared »

I really like the look of this. One suggestion - keep the amount of characters in the title the same as google (50-60 chars). Most websites optimize for this length and without it you miss some important info in titles.

Also the description for your site needs to be recrawled :)

https://peekier.com/#!site%3Apeekier.com

Re: Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

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Post by comex »

libovness wrote: post #27

From https://peekier.com/about "Peekier (pronounced /'pi·ki·er/)" If it's spelled exactly as it would be if you wanted it to be pronounced another way, it should be pronounced that way

I don't get it - how else would it be pronounced? To me it looks like the comparative of a hypothetical adjective "peeky" (compare "peakier"), or perhaps a form of a verb "to peeky" (compare "carrier"). Either way, the pronunciation seems to line up with theirs...

Re: Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

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Post by AdamN »

Suggestions:

1. Do a list results view like Google - you're competing on so many levels that you don't want to challenge standards unless you have massive justifications that you're UX is better. I don't think the tiles are better and even if they were a little better it wouldn't be enough to challenge the paradigm.

2. Can you (or do you) restrict search results that have a high AdBlock/PrivacyBadger score? I've always wanted that so much more than I'm concerned about my privacy vis-a-vis my search engine provider?

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