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

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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.

Yes brave search results are pretty good. Love they have their own search with great coverage. I wish I could use them as an API source!

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This is amazing. Quick question, in your example you did "Paul Graham y combinator". I then tried https://swurl.com/?q=breck+yunits and it worked great, so I thought that I was lucky that my parents gave me a UUID and my results worked better than PG! But then I tried your original query except without "y combinator" and the results were just as good (clearly PG is most famous PG by far). So was curious why you added…

lol, your own UUID, I like that. I added y combinator just to focus the search more. I think before without it, Swurl gave a few other results that were not relevant.

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#273

First result from Reddit for the OP URL: https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/3rumq8/y_combi... lol

Ha, I thought the same thing, but that really is the ranking Google returned for that... must have a lot of links to that.

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My only major complaint is that in the "images" section you see a lot of repeated images. I know that taking all the results and doing some kind of difference check on them/finding the highest quality version is not a simple or particularly computationally quick operation - but it would drastically improve the usefulness given the small size of the window.

Yes I agree, especially with wikipedia. But I was thinking sometimes people still want it in images so they can click and get directly to the image? What do you think about that case? If you have some more examples of queries where this is happening, that would help me improve things!

Actually this may be related to wikipedia as well.

If I enter "voxel", the 1st, 3rd, 5th, and 7th are all duplicates of the wikipedia image.

The 2nd and 24th are copies of that doomguy image, but that's not nearly as severe.

Looking over a couple other searches, it seems I was wrong - it really is mostly wikipedia cropping up in the "images" tab over and over.

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I love this. I could see defaulting to this as my search engine. Thanks for building it and sharing.

Wow, thank you bckr! I appreciate your kind words. Here are instructions on how to default it on Chrome https://swurl.com/default.html

Done!

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

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This is cool. EVen adding more search engine would be really useful, search and compare result across gg, ddg, bing, brave.

Also, give the option to customize in which section to search, I don't care about images results or youtube, give the option to deselect the defaults option.

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