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!
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.
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.