Comment by alfnor | Hacker News Reader

Comment by alfnor | Hacker News Reader

Very smooth!

I'd appreciate being able to create custom search profiles (like Brave Goggles).

If I'm searching for a famous person, I might want Wikipedia, Goodreads, Twitter, Instagram, [music streaming service(s)], Twitch, and YouTube results.

If I'm searching for medicine, I might want Wikipedia, PubChem, MedLinePlus, and Examine.com results.

If I'm searching for a question, I might want StackExchange, Reddit, Quora, and Consensus.app results.

With my regular searches, I might prefer a different search engine than Google, a different microblogging website than Twitter, etc. Maybe I'm boycotting Instagram and don't want those results to show at all?

What sources does the news tab use? Maybe it's extremely biased? Let the user decide! Maybe I want different news source profiles (one for serious, less biased sources; one for satire; one for local news; etc.)?

What about localization? FASS.se is a popular medical database in Sweden, so I'd like for those results to be displayed in my medical search profile.

It would also be cool if the results in the Google column automatically filtered out the results available in the other columns. I mean, since I already have the Wikipedia results in its own column, I don't need the Google column to hand me a Wikipedia link.

I'll stick to Brave search for now, but it's a cool tool!

Wow, this is the best feedback. A lot here that is helpful.

Search profiles. This is a good idea. But could add a lot of complexity and options to fiddle with. I'm trying to just code stuff that adds a tons of value with the least code, basically efficiency. Which Goggles/profiles would you want/need? Would help me to think about this. Trying to figure out the best way to improve this without a bunch of work/settings from the user. Maybe there is a way to solve this automatically by understanding the objective better somehow.

Wooo, love the search type examples, especially the medicine one. I'm not in medicine, so that is super helpful to know. I will be working on those ideas this week. I will prioritize added sources most people are asking for here.

What different microblogging website do you use? I will be adding a way to disable Instagram today. Been getting a lot of requests for that.

I'm just using Bing rss for news. It is the only good API that has images included for news. If you have any other suggestions for better news APIs, I'm all ears!

There is localization and some language support based on browser language/country settings. If you change that in the browser, Swurl uses that info. Never heard of FASS.se, I'll take a look. Do you have any example searches where you would really like to see FASS.se shown?

On filtering out duplicate results, I agree that is a bit redundant. But I'm thinking it should stay because on mobile you can only see 1 column at a time. It is a design quirk that could be improved... not sure what the best way is.

Brave search is really good. I wish they would open up their search results with an API, I'd switch to using them as a search source!

We’re YC S22 providing a news api. Feel free to reach out. I’d be happy to grant you access

Artem at newscatcherapi.com

Awesome Artem! I will be reaching out about this. I have seen newscatcher before, looks like a solid option!

Top features!

I immediately thought in profiles as a nice extra feature when I saw this. And I even thought that it can be done automatically based on your search query without the need for profiles, I think it would be difficult to implement though.

Maybe is the future of searching, who knows!

Thanking for voting up the profile idea! It is a good one. Do you have any example searches? That would be helpful for me thinking about this. What searches would you want to see more of something else, that Google isn't already doing a good job of?

I could code things where if something shows up in Google results, it triggers another column of content from a specific source. Just need some more examples of what people are looking for.

Yeah, sure!

The first ones that come to mind are:

- Searching for travels: I might want TripAdvisor (things to do and top restaurant pages), Youtube, Images, Skyscanner, Maps, Booking, Airbnb. Ideally, I would want some blogs with places to visit and things to do, but I understand there is no single good source for this (as far as I know).

- Searching for restaurants: I might want TripAdvisor, Images, Maps, The Fork.

- Searching for tech in general: StackOverflow, HN, Youtube, TechCrunch, Medium, IndieHackers.

- Searching for learning: Udemy, Coursera, FreeCodeCamp, Youtube, Google Scholar

In the examples above, I just mentioned some examples that could be useful to me, the key thing (as I mentioned it in another comment) is to be able to customize these columns, both in source (add/remove) and order, plus the width of these columns. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there with a lot of awesome ideas for profiles.

I really think this could be a great search engine experience.

Just added option to disable Instagram and Twitter from ▼ menu on the right of the search input. Let me know if that works good for you!

Check out https://combinedsearch.io/ as well

Checked it out! Yes multiple searches seems like a good new direction

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