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

#191

love it. If i could configure my google search UX to this something like this, I would. Reminds me of TweetDeck in its early days. This is a power tool for avid searchers.

Thank you! It is like tweetdeck. I forgot about that site. Will be looking at it more for any ideas...

Swurl is using Google search right now... so you could just change your default search to Swurl :) Would love the support

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

#193

This worked great for me except for one thing (the “back to top” button was right under where I normally scroll the page and I kept hitting it by mistake.

Thank you for letting me know. Where else would it be better for you? Higher, center, left side? Odd I thought that is where everyone puts it...

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

#194
post #69

On iPhone Safari, the bottom browser url bar + the top search input and tabs take up about 40% of the total vertical space of the screen. While usually the url bar collapses to while scrolling down, it doesn’t seem to happen here, probably since the scrolling element is nested.

Yes, sorry, that is a byproduct with this design, can't be fixed because of limitations on mobile browsers. What phone are you using? On most newer phones there is enough vertical height...

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

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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…

Check out https://combinedsearch.io/ as well

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

#198

It's very good (will definitely consider moving). Some user feedback: 1) Dark Mode please 2) Toggleable websites; I saw that the websites I was seeing were black-circles in the panel below the search box. I instinctively tried to click on youtube to not see youtube box. It would also be nice to have a global panel where users can choose if they never want to see a certain website. But these^ are just me being super p…

Also check out https://combinedsearch.io/

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

#199
post #179

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Related: you can use `overscroll-behavior` to prevent the browser gestures to go back/forward in history: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/overscroll-...

Thank you for point that out! That could be helpful. Do you think I should implement that? Right now I still use the browser gestures too. I'm just getting better swiping inside vs swiping on the screen edge I guess...

Something like `overscroll-behavior-x: contain;` for the scrolling container?

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

#200
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…

I agree. It is really good. But I also want the ability to select my sources. For example, I don't care about Instagram or Pinterest either but there may be people who don't care about twitter.

My recommendation is to show everything by default and let the user "uncheck" the source for now. In phase 2 may be, you could make that a User level setting/default.

One source to add: HN :). For example, I know some very well known people are very active on HN. It will be nice to pull their comment history right there :). For example, "cloudflare CTO".

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