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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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This 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.

Awesome you bookmarked it. Glad it helps with what you were wanting!

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

#222

Very cool! Not working on my Firefox though (Ubuntu). Had to use Chrome for this one.

Thank you!

Hrmmm, I don't have Ubuntu. What version of FF are you using? Did everything not work, or certain parts? I know Firefox seems to block embeds.

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

#223

I am surprised how much I like this. I was expecting it to be another rehash - but yes, this is nice.

:) Thank you for the nice words! Yes it is super different, glad people get it... I wasn't sure if it would be liked and understood.

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

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Thank you austin, I appreciate the feedback! I am using Google directly through their paid API, so it is official and legitimate. Not scraping. https://developers.google.com/custom-search/v1/overview I understand infinite scroll isn't for everyone. I will add a pagination option later. We have been using and optimizing infinite scroll on my other website picclick.com for many years. People usually like it if implemen…

Wow Is this costing you $5 for 1000 of our queries?

lol, yep that is what I'm paying for your queries right now :) Would love to lower that cost. I'm just happy people are liking it right now. I could do subscription or ads in the future or try to find a free search source. What do people think?

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

#225

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Wow Is this costing you $5 for 1000 of our queries?

Seems like a power user tool worth paying for. I’m delighted to pay for Kagi.

I know, Kagi did a great job with getting people to pay for their value. I saw that and was impressed! I mean I would rather people pay and have no ads. I really don't like ads.

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

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post #206

not seeing anything in the twitter column, maybe you have run out your api limits...

Twitter is just an embed. Is it working for you now? Maybe your browser is blocking the embed? What browser are you using?

no, still not, I checked on both microsoft edge and firefox, I checked incognito mode too

it's strange, how it's only the twitter column, instagram column once gave me an error message (something about blocking embeds? can't recall) but was at least showing something from instagram, also that went away after a refresh

twitter just has a dull grey background, like the column was left blank or something.

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

#227
post #138

I made this my default search to give it a try. I first interacted on my iPhone - was slick. Then, interacted on an ultrawide monitor--so much information at once. I would like the ability to add sources to search. For example, search HackerNews or industry specific websites.

Wahoo, thank you for making Swurl your default search. Ya on an ultrawide, it is beautiful to see!

If you give me some more examples, I will add them. I am seeing a lot for hacker news. But how do you think it should be triggered? Show all the time, or show only in certain cases?

For industry things, it would be super helpful if you tell me some exact ones since I'm not in all industries, so I would really know first hand. Thank you!

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

#229
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

haha, that would be cool! Thank you for submitting that!

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

#230
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!

Awesome :) Glad you like it and get it!

Yes that is the idea, people are already searching multiple sources. I was just thinking of how to do that better with a good simple UX.

Let me know if there are specific other sources you would like!

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