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

#111
I'm almost convinced that such a layout is the future of search results. I think open sourcing the code would turn this thing into the next searx or saerx might end up picking an up an idea or two. In any way it would be great many people contributing to something like this and implement missing functionality.

Speaking of it, you can rule out any column you don't wanna see by appending a couple of rules into uBblock like these swurl.com###twitter swurl.com###instagram swurl.com###youtube swurl.com###news swurl.com###images

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

#113
What a positive surprise, I wasn't expecting something like this tbh. The UX is amazing.

I will use it for sure with some additional and essentials features for me at least:

- Ability to add and remove some columns: I have no interest in using Instagram or Twitter in my search results and I have interest in using Stackoverflow or HN for example.

- Ability to customize the width of each column for desktop: I have read in your about us page that you clearly state that “Mobile is primary”, however I would be interested in using it on my desktop on a daily basis and it would be nice to have the google column wider than the others for example.

- Possibility to customize the order of the columns: I think this is an obvious one.

Do you have any of these changes in mind for the future?

Congrats!

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

#114

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.

Love this, I think I will definitely add an option to disable! Thank you for your valuable feedback! I just woke up to go for a run, will code this in a couple hours when I get back...

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

#119
post #110

Very smooth! 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, Quo…

Top features!

I immediately thought in profiles as a nice extra feature when I saw this. And I even thought that it can be done automatically based on your search query without the need for profiles, I think it would be difficult to implement though.

Maybe is the future of searching, who knows!

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

#120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not seeing pinterest is worth more

google. ##.g:has(a[href ="pinterest.com"]) google.##.g:has(a[href="pinterest.com"]) add this to your ublock origin.

Or this new search engine UX could filter them out.
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