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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 magicalhippo »

Kiro wrote: post #80
reflexco wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

When you find something that looks interesting, what then?

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

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Post by killingtime74 »

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…

It doesn't take up too much space on a foldable (Z fold 4)

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

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Post by idk1 »

Well that is shockingly good! I was not expecting somthing so good. Nice job! I would ask for one thing - the ability to turn off certain sources. Instagram is not of, and never will be of interest to me.

Edit: 2nd suggestion / feature request: add ability to 'pin' columns to a position.

3rd suggestion / feature request: ability to add scoped google columns, I would love a column that has `site:stackoverflow.com` prefixed to all searches in the 2nd column.

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

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Post by killingtime74 »

ryes wrote: post #23
austinjp wrote: post #22

Nice. A couple of comments. Obvious question about Google (and the others I guess): are you in breach of their Terms? How are you scraping results? How can you require people using this that it will continue to exist, or is it a proof of concept? Personally I'm not a fan of endless scrolling. I never know if I've reached the end. It's also somewhat of a "dark pattern" to encourage attention. Finally, on one search, t…

Thank you austin, I appreciate the feedback! I am using Google directly through their paid API, so it is official and legitimate. Not scraping. https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview I understand infinite scroll isn't for everyone. I will add a pagination option later. We have been using and optimizing infinite scroll on my other website picclick.com for many years. People usually like it if implemen…

Wow Is this costing you $5 for 1000 of our queries?

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

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Post by croes »

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.

How often are there meaningful results for your search terms on Insta?

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

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Post by pgt »

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.

Business model: for $5/month, let users remove social media results from the feed ;).
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