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Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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Post by tomschwiha »

ryes wrote: post #54
tomschwiha wrote: post #52

You should add a cookie banner for EU users as you track users with google analytics without any consent. Also you should make it clear that the amazon results are ads and you earn money with your company with them.

Good points, sorry about that. I will add that, thank you! I just threw on GA so I can see some basic usage data.

Thank you. Otherwise great idea to have some horizontal view on different topics :) The idea behind that can probably also be applied to internal search results where you need to gain quick insights into multiple topics related to one keyword.

Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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Post by silviot »

Reminds me of the days before Google, when it was common practice to repeat the same search on a few search engines, and Apple released Sherlock [1], which allowed you to perform the same search across different engines and aggregated the results.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherlock_(software)

Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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Post by marginalia_nu »

ryes wrote: post #2

Would love any feedback you have :)

Neat. Search UX is at the same time extremely difficult and criminally under-explored I feel. I realize this is hard with third party data, but something I'm really interested in presenting the relationships between data, and offering means of exploring them.

One gripe with this design is that this page can't be scrolled on a PC. Or rather, it can only be scrolled vertically. To scroll horizontally, you need to grab an auto-vanishing single-pixel scroll bar. Although that's not really your fault as much as the browser designers' fixation with minimalist GUIs.

I also think it's difficult to have these many images in an interface, especially brightly colorful images of vastly different sizes with faces. They are all powerful attention attractors, and as a result, and the result is the (excellent) structure of the website doesn't quite come to flourish as much as it could.

But as I said, search UX is extremely difficult. This is a cool new take.

Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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Post by Kiro »

NayamAmarshe wrote: post #60

Well, It works and it's a cool idea but I just don't appreciate an Instagram feed in my search results. That thing tracks you like rescue dogs.

Please don't listen to this feedback. Just because it's upvoted here doesn't mean it's representative.

Keep the Instagram results. It's very useful.

Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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Post by senectus1 »

NayamAmarshe wrote: post #60

Well, It works and it's a cool idea but I just don't appreciate an Instagram feed in my search results. That thing tracks you like rescue dogs.

I'll 2nd that. its strange because sometimes it shows instagram and others it doesn't... is there some way to choose to not have it ever?

Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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Post by Zanfa »

On iPhone Safari, the bottom browser url bar + the top search input and tabs take up about 40% of the total vertical space of the screen. While usually the url bar collapses to while scrolling down, it doesn’t seem to happen here, probably since the scrolling element is nested.

Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time

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Post by conelion »

ryes wrote: post #36
conelion wrote: post #29

Seems like a great UX to get broad information about a topic! One little thing: In my opinion the labels 'Google', 'Wikipedia', 'Twitter', etc. don't need to be fixed on mobile since you already have to icons above it and it does take up a bit of vertical space. Other than that a nice concept.

Thank you conelion. I am super glad the UX feels great to you, and you are understanding the design advantage :) That is a really good UX optimization find. Yes on mobile, since it is just 1 column at a time, I could remove the title label. The label does help to anchor the column a bit more clearly and gives consistency between mobile-desktop. What do you think about that? Is the extra few pixels height more valuabl…

Just to be clear, I wouldn't remove the label on mobile entirely but just not make it fixed. In the sense of putting it inside the scroll container.

I only had time before to test it on mobile on my commute. Having seen the desktop version now I understand your concern. Maybe there is a way to just reduce the size of the information a bit but still keeping it structurally as is? I also think that most people can identify the source of the information just based on how it is structured (longer texts for wikipedia, youtube/twitter/reddit with its own branding, etc.) but we would need more opinions on that.

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