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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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nicofo wrote: post #280

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.

Just added Bing, you can switch to it from the menu on the top right to enable Bing instead of Google. Please try it out and let me know if that helps you. DDG is basically the same as Bing. Brave unfortunately doesn't give API access to others right now.

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

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Post by ryes »

logicprog wrote: post #279

Dude this is so fucking cool. I just wished it offered non-Google search engines as well! If it did I'd absolutely 100% use it daily.

Just added Bing, you can switch to it from the menu on the top right to enable Bing instead of Google. Please try it out and let me know if that helps you.

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

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Post by ryes »

kloud wrote: post #282
ryes wrote: post #181

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Thank you for the great feedback! I would love to have a different search source, but DuckDuckGo and Brave don't give API access to their results. I would definitely add those if they opened up access to Swurl. Know anyone that could help me with that?

I was so excited I didn't think it through :) This is where wishes meet hard reality. I believe DDG has its own crawler. But they also rely on results from Bing for which they probably don't have rights to provide an API. So at this point the only viable alternative would seem to be the Bing API.

Just added Bing, you can switch to it from the menu on the top right to enable Bing instead of Google. Please try it out and let me know if that helps you.

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Post by ryes »

pgt wrote: post #87

Good brand, SWURL! Can you swop out Google for other search engines like You.com and DDG?

Just added Bing, you can switch to it from the menu on the top right to enable Bing instead of Google. Please try it out and let me know if that helps you.

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

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Post by ryes »

ryes wrote: post #269
totalview wrote: post #190

This would be fabulous for switching between brave, duck duck go, and Google. I love the UX, finally something worthwhile in the browser space. Available for purchase at any point?

Would love to do that too, but so far I can not find an API for brave or ddg search results. Thank you for your compliment about the UX!

I did just add Bing which is basically the same as DDG, you can switch to it from the menu on the top right to enable Bing instead of Google. Please try it out and let me know if that helps you.

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

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Post by ryes »

diordiderot wrote: post #319
ryes wrote: post #294

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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 mo…

Back to top working well!

Great, thank you for the confirmation!

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

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Post by ryes »

CGamesPlay wrote: post #320
ryes wrote: post #219

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Hrmm, the problem is with infinite scroll. Opening in new tab is the best UX I've tested that works best. Anything suggestions with that problem if I did add that option?

No. If I click the link it’s because I’m done with the search and found my target result. If I am unsure about it, I’ll open the link in a new tab myself using middle click or long tap.

That is a good point, I'll be thinking about this problem... let me know if you have any good ideas how to improve that without hurting infinite scroll. Right now I think I need to leave it for infinite scroll right, else if you click back you would lose your place.

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

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Post by ryes »

ryzvonusef wrote: post #233
ryes wrote: post #206

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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

Ok I check FF. It is getting blocked due to tracking protection. So for Twitter and Instagram, the only way to integrate it well and easily is with embeds/widgets. It is iframed in with some JS code.

So really there isn't a way to fix it and make it work unless you don't use private mode in FF or unblock it.

But if you don't want to do that, I did add a way to disable Twitter and Instagram from the top right menu dropdown. Try it out and let me know if that solves your problem well.

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

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Post by ryes »

hndamien wrote: post #17

I really like it. A few things: The dynamic columns based on search are cool. Not sure if you are learning from clicks, but that would be cool. Tradeview price data is cool, not sure if intentional or a nice side effect. Twitter results seemed to not be working, but I see they are there

Ok I checked it out more. It is getting blocked due to tracking protection. So for Twitter and Instagram, the only way to integrate it well and easily is with embeds/widgets. It is iframed in with some JS code.

So really there isn't a way to fix it and make it work unless you don't use private mode in FF or unblock it.

But if you don't want to do that, I did add a way to disable Twitter and Instagram from the top right menu dropdown. Try it out and let me know if that solves your problem well.

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Post by senectus1 »

ryes wrote: post #311
senectus1 wrote: post #307

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please add a dark theme and the ability to block results from places like instgram

Will be adding dark! You can turn off Instagram and Twitter from the menu on the top right.

that wasn't there before!

well done, very cool and am looking forward to Dark Mode!

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