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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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Nice work! It would be nice if the user could manually toggle which results to show. For example for most searches I may only want to enable Google and Twitter results.

Thank you! So all the time only Google and Twitter?

The design thinking I'm going right now is less options to figure out and click, and just make it easy to jump to any source, and do the best possible to show ranked and relevant sources. What do you think? Would love more input and ideas on this!

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#232

It looks really nice, I'll be using it from now on! Thanks.

I am honestly kind of in shock, I truly went with the mindset of let's check this new UX for 20 seconds that I'm never gonna really use but might have something cool since it's upvoted to let's see how to make this the default on chrome and give it an actual go. OP sincere congrats on the effort.

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

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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?

screenshot of what I see, if it helps

this on edge (inprivate) window, but I face the same error on firefox.

https://i.imgur.com/oapI6Sz.png

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

#234

I love this. If you're looking to collaborate or potentially sell, let me know. tyler at failure dot inc Nice work!

Thank you Tyler! You've done some great work with motionarray! I love bootstrapped companies!

Would definitely be open to collaborators, will need to figure that out later. Today need to code a bunch of features :)

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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…

Thinking out loud here I frequently search: LinkedIn Slack if looking up startups: pitchbook/crunchbase/techcrunch / finsmes industry specific (insurance): coverager, insurance journal, propertycasualty360, etc

Perhaps if I logged into swurl, I could set a column to custom search one or multiple websites using a "site:" appended search (like others have mentioned)

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

#237

I suppose it's my personal bias (I like minimal & clear layouts), but this current UI you got going on feels claustrophobic at best. Since you're committing to a horizontal scrollbar, why not increase the size of columns and position the content so it feels like I am reading/looking _down_ (from top to bottom) not everywhere all at once. Also, a better scrollbar design would be nice + individually making sure each co…

Thank you for your detailed feedback!

It should look pretty clean, unless you have a browser that always shows scrollbars. What browser and operating system are you using? I think Windows and IE might show scrollbars more. Should look good on majority of popular browsers like mobile and Chrome. But if you give me more details I can look into how it looks on your side.

I did try adding a stronger header look before... but it ended up looking too busy and heavy. Right now I'm trying to lean towards minimal and clean as possible consider the amount of data going on. If you can give me a mock up of what you are thinking I would love to see that!

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#239

Nice work. A simple feature that I'd like to see is if I could focus on one of the columns and have it expand, use more screen-space. And +1 on the searx comments, I'd love to use such an interface there.

Thank you! I'll be thinking on that expand idea. Anyone else feeling that, please comment here.

Yes I have seen a few mentions about searx, will look into that!

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

#240

I’ve tried it on mobile and it works very well. Super smooth navigation, nothings lagging or moving in unintuitive ways. But for me personally the preview of the next column takes up just a little too much space. Coupled with the fact that the active column has no white space on the left and is off center makes it feel a little cramped. But I think this could be solved with a little tweaking. The overall layout looks…

It doesn't take up too much space on a foldable (Z fold 4)

Ha, would like to try Swurl on that! Must look awesome on a big mobile screen!
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