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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 RamblingCTO »

ryes wrote: post #38
RamblingCTO wrote: post #34

Hm, I have no results, I can only see Google on the left side. The console says: Uncaught TypeError: data.queries is undefined web https://swurl.com/?q=google+translate:1179 jQuery 6 But no blocked requests.

Hrmm, sorry about that. Please try again now. I added some more checking code. https://swurl.com/?q=google+translate If it still isn't working, could you let me know the exact URL you are looking at? And browser you are using?

Hah, got it. I use uMatrix, which spoofs the http referer header. Google apparently does not like that:

// API callback webgoogle({ "error": { "code": 403, "message": "Requests from referer https://www.googleapis.com/ are blocked.", "errors": [ { "message": "Requests from referer https://www.googleapis.com/ are blocked.", "domain": "global", "reason": "forbidden" } ], "status": "PERMISSION_DENIED", "details": [ { "@type": "type.googleapis.com/google.rpc.ErrorInfo", "reason": "API_KEY_HTTP_REFERRER_BLOCKED", "domain": "googleapis.com", "metadata": { "service": "customsearch.googleapis.com", "consumer": "projects/blabla" } } ] } } );

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

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Post by Version467 »

ryes wrote: post #41
Version467 wrote: post #35

I’ve tried it on mobile and it works very well. Super smooth navigation, nothings lagging or moving in unintuitive ways. But for me personally the preview of the next column takes up just a little too much space. Coupled with the fact that the active column has no white space on the left and is off center makes it feel a little cramped. But I think this could be solved with a little tweaking. The overall layout looks…

Great it is working good for you, that makes me very happy. Glad it is smooth and fast. I tried really hard to make it super fast and optimized and small. Thank you very much for your spacing feedback. What device are you using to browse? I could try making the column a bit more wider and more spacing... It is a big tradeoff between information density and spacing. Maybe give it a try for a week and let me know if yo…

I've used an iPhone 13 pro to try it out. I think just making the column on the right about half the width that it's right now would go a long way. It's just there to show me that I can swipe to the right, not to actually be readable. Right now it takes up to much space as an indicator, but too little to convey information. I think that's what's bothering me.

I could probably get used to the main column being off-center pretty quickly, so it's really just the width of the right column.

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

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Post by kloud »

ryes wrote: post #2

Would love any feedback you have :)

Congrats, this looks great!

I think on the desktop the columns could be wider, so the preview text wraps on fewer lines and more results fit in vertically for quick eye scanning.

Did you think about having the ability to display multiple primary search engines besides Google like DuckDuckGo? A while ago I switched to DDG as my default search engine and learned to trust that the search results are good enough. On occasion, I have a FOMO and fall back to Google anyway. It would be a neat feature to have them shown side-by-side.

Another example is Brave Search. I like the ideas behind it, but will not experiment with it as a default engine as an early adopter due to possible friction. With a meta engine like Swurl I could keep having Google/DDG as the primary engine and include other emerging engines like Brave Search in another column to take it for a low friction/risk test drive (perhaps configured through URL parameters).

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

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Post by code51 »

I appreciate the idea and implementation.

However this is literally GQ magazine implemented as a search page which overwhelms the user with irrelevant information.

That's why old Google was cool: clean and relevant. I don't see anyone looking for efficiency (not social media but a search page) would want to change that.

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

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Post by Deriveur »

Kiro wrote: post #67
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.

I think it would be good to be able to enable and disable this column (as well as the others since you prefer some column for some research and vice versa)

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

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Post by reflexco »

Kiro wrote: post #67
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.

It just feels weird to have results from a walled off website on a search engine, unless we specifically indicate that we have an account on this website. Similar to how we don't like submissions to paywalled articles on HN.

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

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Post by jand »

Kiro wrote: post #67
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.

As this line of comments indicates, there is no consensus upon whether instagram is worth having or not.

Why not let the user decide, which columns to show? You could start with a default, non-intrusive set which the user can expand as liked.

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

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Post by Kiro »

reflexco wrote: post #77
Kiro wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

It just feels weird to have results from a walled off website on a search engine, unless we specifically indicate that we have an account on this website. Similar to how we don't like submissions to paywalled articles on HN.

> unless we specifically indicate that we have an account on this website

What do you mean? The whole point is that I can search Instagram here without an account.

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