Good brand, SWURL! Can you swop out Google for other search engines like You.com and DDG?
It would be nice if it could be customized.
And allow the user to remove sites, such as Pinterest, from the search results.
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#122This is something I've really wanted for a while, and the design implementation is far better than what I would probably have gone for. Very nice! Bookmarked as a new Search Engine.
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#123I love it.
Good job!
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#124But… where are all the ads???
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#125Are 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 would agree to personalise my filters on your system. The purpose is to stop the flood of junk and spam, to evade the agenda of whoever ranks the feeds.
I am already using such a system for scientific papers search.zeta-alpha.com, they do embedding based ranking and recommendations based on bookmarks and tags. It's 2022, I expect high end neural ranking. I even implemented such systems on my own, I know exactly how hard it is.
For example I searched on your site "Focal Loss", and I get news about "Former Longhorn Poona Ford Shines in Win over Arizona Cardinals". Search "Softmax Activation" and get "How to activate an eSIM on your iPhone". An embedding similarity filter would have rejected that, it's not even in the same ballpark.
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#126Very cool!
Not working on my Firefox though (Ubuntu). Had to use Chrome for this one.
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#127It 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!
Now you need to add tiktok as a column to capture those gen Z users using it as a search engine [1]
[1]: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/16/technology/gen-z-tiktok-s...
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#128I don't like that there is a horizontal scroll bar, it's uncomfortable to use and I'm not familiar with them, it would be convenient to make that with the mouse leaving the left button pressed it would be possible to make a gesture from left to right and vice versa to be able to move instead of using the horizontal scroll bar
edit: I saw that it is possible to move around using the top left buttons but I find them inconvenient
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Your site is simple to use. This is good. It also means that users won't need much help before they are proficient. But by reducing the screen width, you're punishing your users forever. You can solve this by teaching users about the interaction up front. Try placing some text somewhere on the screen that encourages users to swipe. You can hide it once they've done it once. Alternatively, shortly after page load you…
What phone are you using right now? That would be helpful for me to consider. I did increase the column width from 320 to 335 pixels based on your feedback. It does feel better. But if I make it too wide, then the content can get too big I feel. I'll be thinking more about this feedback and will test some more. Thank you!
Just for an extra data point, I really like it the way it is. Seeing a peek of the next column to give an intuitive understanding that you can swipe for more is really neat (and I'm on an iPhone 8, so not a particularly large screen).