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Comment by alexeichemenda | Hacker News Reader

Love the navigation ! Really easy and fast, and my eyes are only focused on this area. Very cool. Two comments : - Why do the results open in a new tab ? Is there something I'm not understanding definitely rename "related" with something like "sub-section" or "add filter". Great job !

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Thanks Alex! The reason results open in a new tab, is because any keyword you click results in a new "search". For that search, a new summary is calculated and displayed "with the same interface". I haven't had time to design how this could be done by expanding within the current page. But it definitely should be done, you're right!

I am thinking to apply this to books and movie abstracts too. Any other ideas? Apart from obviously classifying HN comments :)))

Have you thought about building an API to let websites use it with their own content ? Also, a search engine would be pretty cool ;) Instead of clicking on an item in circle #1 and then sub-section in circle #2, user could type his own keyword in circle #1 and add his own sub-section in circle #2. Obviously you can already do this on Google using + and all the others signs, but I'm pretty sure a lot of people do not know how to use it.

I thought about the API - this is a good idea. I was thinking that I also can do a widget that people could put on their website. For example, they could put: "Top news mentioning USA in Finance category". I think that would be really useful for a lot of websites. However, no time for this now. Improving design based on feedback and looking for investors.

I didn't really get your idea about search engine. You can already type anything you want in the search bar at the top. The results then can be further categorized.

P.S. Too bad HN doesn't send out notification when someone replies, I missed your comment three days ago.

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