Amazing idea, great work man. Just one suggestion; the filters should probably be at the bottom within reach of your hands.
Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
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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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Cool! Would love to have more people getting value out of Swurl. I will be coding a bunch of these suggestions today! What changes were you specifically needing? Just turning off Instagram? Sorry, the 1st comment was edited, so not sure what you would like.
- The possibility to select which column is present - The possibility to add a column for google search with flags, such as `site:stackoverflow.com` - the poossibility to rearrange the order by which columns are displayed Thanks a lot for the heads up and congratulations on creating such a cool UI ! I showed it around at work and everyone loved it ;)
Thank you for replying to my questions.
Ok I've added a way to disable Instagram and Twitter. Is there other ones you'd like disabled? Or are you wanting to set specific ones to always show?
Right now the ones shown are automatic and dynamic. It tries to show the most relevant columns ranked in the best order, depending on your search. This opens up the idea of doing things like knowing you are looking for a code problem and showing stackoverflow results in the 2nd column.
I mean those are 2 very different design directions. Auto vs manual... Are you super thinking a full manual version would be good? I've found people generally use things more when it is automatically good.
I'll have to think more about this. A number of people did bring this up...
Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
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Thanks for your response. Also that's cool you're probably right about meta tags open graph is broadly used but not uniform in their content. As for additional sites Stackoverflow and quora would be great additions.
Thank you for the feedback! Stackoverflow is already there, but it needs to be triggered by google results. For example https://swurl.com/?q=php+array+sort will show stackoverflow. I'll look into Quora.
Oh nice! Do you have a way of having the user add their own?
Re: Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
#294This looks / feels amazing! Notes: The back to top button is covered by the URL bar on Firefox mobile. Also next page/column preview is too wide imho
Thank you for letting me know about the back to top! I was able to reproduce it and fix the problem. Please try it again now and let me know if it works well for you now.
I made the columns a bit wider than before. I tried even wider, but when I did, it there is a line where it is too wide, especially on desktop. Where seeing more columns is better, or seeing more of a hint/peek is better. Please try using it some more regularly and let me know if you get use to it, or not :)
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#295This 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.
Are you on android? I just fixed something which might improve this for you.
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Hrmm, thank you for letting me know! Do you have any more info on how to reproduce this problem? How are you disabling it? I'm just trying to reproduce so I can try to stop any errors breaking things. Thank you!
Personally, I much prefer search engines that work without javascript enabled at all (currently using Metager). I use strict uBlock Origin settings as well as various other strict browser settings like blocking third party cookies. I'm not sure how much of that you want to try to support (or what is causing my issue - the site does not work at all for me, even after enabling javascript), but trying on Firefox with de…
Sorry, for this it needs javascript. We are using JSON APIs, it helps make it faster. I wish we could support this, but it is just too hard vs speed or costs :(
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Hrmm, thank you for letting me know! Do you have any more info on how to reproduce this problem? How are you disabling it? I'm just trying to reproduce so I can try to stop any errors breaking things. Thank you!
I use gorhill's uMatrix (author of uBlock). uMatrix is awesome as it disables any 3rd party domains and only loads content from main domain that author controls. it also allows blocking by content type. Like iframes. I believe some blockers designed for telemetry blocking, like ghostery or privacy badger, will come with js shims. So they will block google tag manager, but will load a replacement JS to make sure the p…
Sorry ya we need 3rd party domains at least for images so the costs are not crazy with caching/proxying. Maybe just turn it off just for Swurl?
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Thank you for the feedback! Stackoverflow is already there, but it needs to be triggered by google results. For example https://swurl.com/?q=php+array+sort will show stackoverflow. I'll look into Quora.
Oh nice! Do you have a way of having the user add their own?
Sorry not right now. What source would you want to add?
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#299definitely going to try and use this for a while. looks lovely. Confuses me why i like this kind of display, and things like reddit i tend to prefer one line per article no images. But the extra search sources utilizing it is lovely.
wonderful you are going to try to use Swurl regularly. I am happy it looks good for you!
Lol, I feel like people enjoy content overload or can handle more content at once now. After youtube/tiktok/instagram.
Let me know if there are specific sources you would like added. I am compiling a list of new ones to add.
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- The possibility to select which column is present - The possibility to add a column for google search with flags, such as `site:stackoverflow.com` - the poossibility to rearrange the order by which columns are displayed Thanks a lot for the heads up and congratulations on creating such a cool UI ! I showed it around at work and everyone loved it ;)
Thank you for replying to my questions. Ok I've added a way to disable Instagram and Twitter. Is there other ones you'd like disabled? Or are you wanting to set specific ones to always show? Right now the ones shown are automatic and dynamic. It tries to show the most relevant columns ranked in the best order, depending on your search. This opens up the idea of doing things like knowing you are looking for a code pro…
I personally enjoy a lot more when things are manually customizable, but honestly I also don't think that I represent the majority of users ! So yeah, I think that the option to trigger a full manual ordering of the columns would be another great feature :)