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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 peop…

Yeah, sure!

The first ones that come to mind are:

- Searching for travels: I might want TripAdvisor (things to do and top restaurant pages), Youtube, Images, Skyscanner, Maps, Booking, Airbnb. Ideally, I would want some blogs with places to visit and things to do, but I understand there is no single good source for this (as far as I know).

- Searching for restaurants: I might want TripAdvisor, Images, Maps, The Fork.

- Searching for tech in general: StackOverflow, HN, Youtube, TechCrunch, Medium, IndieHackers.

- Searching for learning: Udemy, Coursera, FreeCodeCamp, Youtube, Google Scholar

In the examples above, I just mentioned some examples that could be useful to me, the key thing (as I mentioned it in another comment) is to be able to customize these columns, both in source (add/remove) and order, plus the width of these columns. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there with a lot of awesome ideas for profiles.

I really think this could be a great search engine experience.

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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 wel…

For example, "cloudflare CTO".

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jgrahamc

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

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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.

Better yet, quit using google. I've been on https://search.brave.com for months and have no regrets.

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

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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 wel…

For example, "cloudflare CTO". https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jgrahamc

Yep I know :). That's exactly what I meant. If this tool can pull your HN history right here: https://swurl.com/?q=cloudflare+CTO
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