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Good brand, SWURL! Can you swop out Google for other search engines like You.com and DDG?
The big win for this site def seems to be provider selection. Plus reordering.
Would also appreciate some security assistance. The main reason I use Kagi is speed, the second is privacy. Adding more search providers reduces privacy, unless there is some nice proxying involved.
Need to check this out on desktop… it’s great on mobile!
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 is really impressive. It's been hiding in plain sight yet not implemented that people want to search specific social media sites and we add reddit or twitter at the end of our search to get those results .
Ya for real! That is basically what this new UX is trying to enable. Just more columns of views. I've been just seeing people swiping for more on snapchat and tiktok, thinking that UX design must be good to use for evolving something else. And hit upon trying it for search. Let me know if you have other specific search columns I should add!
Edit: it’s over there on the right. I just missed it initially. Swank!
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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?
On mobile and I couldn't get it to do anything. Doesn't seem very intuitive.... You only get a few seconds of someones time when they first visit, it needs to be drop dead simple. I see alot of other comments saying how easy and intuitive it is, so confused why I get nothing and can't figure out how to get something.
Are you reranking results with neural nets? I'd like to have a personalised filter + reranker that can sit on top of everything else. We need to take back control of our feeds. I think the trifecta of user control is - filtering, ranking and UI. Any of them can be used by big corporations in shady ways. Your meta search engine is already a new UI and allowing multiple sources empowers users. But we need more than tha…
Hrmm, that is some deep feedback. I thought people are really into privacy right now. For personalization I'd need to add registration and profiling and controls you need to click. Would you be into that? What types of searches are you into? Could you give me some examples to think about, that would be very helpful. Thank you!
I’m not sure how I would want results re-ranked for me. Maybe some limited promotion of geographically nearby things?
"Jaguar" gives confused results - some try to cluster results, some give the car, some give the car.
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Firefox on Android here. Scrolling to the next section works well but scrolling to a previous one feels too sticky now (requires too long of a swipe to the right for me at least). What a great project, I'm really enjoying it. Well done!
Glad you are enjoying it, thank you for your feedback and help testing! Ok will test some more. The problem is kinda Firefox actually. Swurl is using this newish css snap feature, but Firefox's implementation is a bit buggy. Sorry...
The new Arc Browser[2] also has something similar implemented as a boost[3] (boost are short snippet-like extensions).
Just goes to show how less reliable Google Search is becoming because of ads and bot results. Platforms like reddit (I append 50% of my searches with "reddit") bring a more human touch. Totally agree with Paul's thoughts on reddit[4].
[1]: https://hyperweb.app/desktop [2]: https://arc.net/ [3]: https://arc.net/e/2CADECD1-9839-4057-9EA9-A9988ABC4B92 [4]: https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1360263618508521480
I'd appreciate being able to create custom search profiles (like Brave Goggles).
If I'm searching for a famous person, I might want Wikipedia, Goodreads, Twitter, Instagram, [music streaming service(s)], Twitch, and YouTube results.
If I'm searching for medicine, I might want Wikipedia, PubChem, MedLinePlus, and Examine.com results.
If I'm searching for a question, I might want StackExchange, Reddit, Quora, and Consensus.app results.
With my regular searches, I might prefer a different search engine than Google, a different microblogging website than Twitter, etc. Maybe I'm boycotting Instagram and don't want those results to show at all?
What sources does the news tab use? Maybe it's extremely biased? Let the user decide! Maybe I want different news source profiles (one for serious, less biased sources; one for satire; one for local news; etc.)?
What about localization? FASS.se is a popular medical database in Sweden, so I'd like for those results to be displayed in my medical search profile.
It would also be cool if the results in the Google column automatically filtered out the results available in the other columns. I mean, since I already have the Wikipedia results in its own column, I don't need the Google column to hand me a Wikipedia link.
I'll stick to Brave search for now, but it's a cool tool!