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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 Retr0id »

cauefcr wrote: post #153
philistine wrote: post #145

By the way, where is innovation in Google Search? I just saw news of one person who built search inside CD-ROMs of the 90s all by themselves. Why doesn’t Google do that with search and integrate it somehow? Google Search has abandoned any pretense of finding new areas of search.

I'm still working on a reverse of google-desktop-linux-latest, they've left debugging info in it, maybe someone can liberate their old search algorithm.

What is google-desktop-linux-latest?

Edit: presumably https://web.archive.org/web/20110205055647/http://desktop.go...

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

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Post by abricq »

ryes wrote: post #158
abricq wrote: post #134

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If OP implements these changes, I might actually start using this for real ! It is true that it is brilliant.

Cool! Would love to have more people getting value out of Swurl. I will be coding a bunch of these suggestions today! What changes were you specifically needing? Just turning off Instagram? Sorry, the 1st comment was edited, so not sure what you would like.

- The possibility to select which column is present

- The possibility to add a column for google search with flags, such as `site:stackoverflow.com`

- the poossibility to rearrange the order by which columns are displayed

Thanks a lot for the heads up and congratulations on creating such a cool UI ! I showed it around at work and everyone loved it ;)

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

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Post by ryes »

alfnor wrote: 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…

Wow, this is the best feedback. A lot here that is helpful.

Search profiles. This is a good idea. But could add a lot of complexity and options to fiddle with. I'm trying to just code stuff that adds a tons of value with the least code, basically efficiency. Which Goggles/profiles would you want/need? Would help me to think about this. Trying to figure out the best way to improve this without a bunch of work/settings from the user. Maybe there is a way to solve this automatically by understanding the objective better somehow.

Wooo, love the search type examples, especially the medicine one. I'm not in medicine, so that is super helpful to know. I will be working on those ideas this week. I will prioritize added sources most people are asking for here.

What different microblogging website do you use? I will be adding a way to disable Instagram today. Been getting a lot of requests for that.

I'm just using Bing rss for news. It is the only good API that has images included for news. If you have any other suggestions for better news APIs, I'm all ears!

There is localization and some language support based on browser language/country settings. If you change that in the browser, Swurl uses that info. Never heard of FASS.se, I'll take a look. Do you have any example searches where you would really like to see FASS.se shown?

On filtering out duplicate results, I agree that is a bit redundant. But I'm thinking it should stay because on mobile you can only see 1 column at a time. It is a design quirk that could be improved... not sure what the best way is.

Brave search is really good. I wish they would open up their search results with an API, I'd switch to using them as a search source!

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

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Post by ryes »

wasw wrote: post #119
alfnor wrote: 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!

Thanking for voting up the profile idea! It is a good one. Do you have any example searches? That would be helpful for me thinking about this. What searches would you want to see more of something else, that Google isn't already doing a good job of?

I could code things where if something shows up in Google results, it triggers another column of content from a specific source. Just need some more examples of what people are looking for.

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

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Post by jrmann100 »

a_c wrote: post #150

I like it! Nowadays I usually prefix my search with ddg's bang command to narrow my search to a subset of websites. I made a tiny browser extension to include tohe commonly searched sites. What you did is bang command on steroids. Thanks for building it!

I submitted a request[1] to DDG to add a !swurl bang! Hopefully it goes through.

[1]: https://duckduckgo.com/newbang

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

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Post by riquito »

ryes wrote: post #156
idk1 wrote: post #84

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` pre…

Thank you for the kind compliment, that is appreciated :) Good feedback! Ok I will definitely add an option to turn off Instagram and Twitter. Is there anything besides those? Not sure I want to add an option to turn off anything, trying to limit the complexity and number of options. Pinning... could you give me some examples of columns you would always want pinned to the front vs dynamic based on relevancy? Or some…

If you dislike some companies, you probably don't want to ever see their content, risk to load any kind of tracking information, or help them with an increase in traffic. I'd love too a turn off feature, or a filter of some kind

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

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Post by earth_walker »

croes wrote: post #86
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.

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

For me, never.

For most of the other people in my life, they are primarily searching for products, books, people, and ideas for recipes or various projects around the home.

So I totally see the utility of having these social media sites in the feed.

On the other hand, this reduces privacy even more than stock google, basically broadcasting your search terms to a whole bunch of bad actors, so I won't be recommending it to anyone.

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

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Post by luuuzeta »

andrew-ld wrote: post #128

I 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 in…

You can move left to right and vice versa using the mouse wheel if your mouse supports it.

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

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Post by artembugara »

ryes wrote: post #164
alfnor wrote: 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…

Wow, this is the best feedback. A lot here that is helpful. Search profiles. This is a good idea. But could add a lot of complexity and options to fiddle with. I'm trying to just code stuff that adds a tons of value with the least code, basically efficiency. Which Goggles/profiles would you want/need? Would help me to think about this. Trying to figure out the best way to improve this without a bunch of work/settings…

We’re YC S22 providing a news api. Feel free to reach out. I’d be happy to grant you access

Artem at newscatcherapi.com

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