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Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web
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Re: Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web
#62Thank you for sharing this, it's a great first impression. - Clean design - Fast search results with previews - Layout options - User privacy On the second visit, I noticed the "tags" feature: it's possible to narrow down the search results by suggested key words. Very nice user experience. One idea: perhaps there can be a description of how to set Peekier as the default search engine (for example: https://duckduckgo…
Thanks. There could be a description on how to set the default search engine as it is a different process on each browser.
You should get some feedback on the actual quality of the search results too :) DDG is plagued with terrible results, at least when localized to "Sweden". At a first glance, it looks like Peekier gives me Google quality results!
Where do you get your data from? Do you use your own crawlers? I wish there was a traditional list based search results page too, then I could actually consider using this. I use Startpage now, but it has some strange bugs that's been plaguing the result pages for years.
Re: Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web
#63Looks really nice. Id wish that you could change the layout of the search results though.
Re: Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web
#64Thank you for sharing this, it's a great first impression. - Clean design - Fast search results with previews - Layout options - User privacy On the second visit, I noticed the "tags" feature: it's possible to narrow down the search results by suggested key words. Very nice user experience. One idea: perhaps there can be a description of how to set Peekier as the default search engine (for example: https://duckduckgo…
I absolutely love the previews. I think those png images take up less bandwidth than the js heavy page load. Plus it's a static image not tracking my every movement.
Re: Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web
#65Cool approach!
If I type in "adult learning", I get no search results at all (no results found). A slightly different search, "Adult education", gives me the results I would expect. Ditto just "learning", just "adult"; so I'm not sure if its an issue in the index, or the strict search filtering..
Re: Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web
#66That is definitely a very interesting search engine, but I'm personally only interested if this will be open sourced.
Currently I host my own instance of https://searx.me which is a search engine aggregator, which only sends the least amount of needed information, it even works with yacy a completely decentralized search engine.
That said there are some interesting ideas here, but I need to use a lot more to compare results to google, so far they've been pretty accurate Screenshots are pretty neat, but can also be distracting. I like what duckduckgo does with its instant answers, giving me a short answer that doesn't distract the overall flow of reading.
Edit: searx even somewhat supports ddg instant answers, though very wip.
Re: Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web
#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
Do you really do your own crawling for purposes other than image retrieval? Is it really any good? I highly doubt that your queries are primarily coming from your own engine. The results are too good. It has good ranking, spelling correction, super large indices, and is fast. For example searching "GTGACCTTGGGCAAGTTACTTAACCTCTCTGTGCCTCAGTTTCCTCATCTGTAAAATGGGGATAATA" works even though it only occurs on a few pages and…
Where did I imply that queries primarily come from my own engine? Right now only 15-20% of them are. Your search was routed through Bing.
Oh sorry for not being clearer, I didn't mean to imply you misinformed people. I just thought you should be more transparent about where results are coming from.
For example it would have been nice to see a "results from Bing" message somewhere on the search page, or an item on the about page saying that you use another search engine's results.
It would actually have increased my confidence and impression of your project. I know that you can't have made a fantastic query engine like Bing/Google's without a ton of engineers so you must be using someone else's, and it would have given me a better impression if you said that up front instead of my having to infer that.