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

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
:) awesome! Thank you bckr! Be sure to email me any feedback you might have in the future through the contact us link in the About Us page.
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
logicprog, thank you! Hrmmm yes a few asked for non-google. I mean DDG uses Bing. I could use Bing too. Would you want that? I could add a switch to go between Google and Bing, but not sure why you would want that. Bing isn't as good as Google results. Let me know more about why and it would be very helpful to deciding this!
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Thank you. Great! If you are using Chrome, here is how to default it: https://swurl.com/default.html
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Yes I definitely need to add more food sources! I will be improve that! I love eating lol :)
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Ha, I thought the same thing, but that really is the ranking Google returned for that... must have a lot of links to that.
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
lol, your own UUID, I like that. I added y combinator just to focus the search more. I think before without it, Swurl gave a few other results that were not relevant.
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Yes brave search results are pretty good. Love they have their own search with great coverage. I wish I could use them as an API source!
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Checked it out! Yes multiple searches seems like a good new direction
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
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!
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Good thinking. Linkedin is super closed off. I tried integrating that more, but had a hard time figuring out how.

Startup sources, that is good. I could do that!

I'll look more into insurance.

Keep it coming! Love your good examples and sources.

I'm trying not to do a logged in experience right now. People really hate logging into things and figuring out options. I mean, it is a really low percentage and usage compared to the amount of coding work... But please think out more, I'll be thinking on these things!

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Trufa, for reals. I know how you feel. Gives me a smile that it surprised you. I'm surprised people like it so much :) I haven't shown many people before this.

That would be awesome if you made it default and tried using it regularly! Here are instructions for Chrome https://swurl.com/default.html

Thank you!

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Ahhh, awesome you will be using it regularly! Makes me happy it is helpful to people. I will be improving things! Please email me if you have anything that could be improved. My email is on the website top right dropdown.
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Cool, ya let me know if it looks better for you on Mac. Ya that is the problem on Windows, especially older Windows machines. I think there is a setting on Windows to make the scrollbars work more like Mac on Chrome?

Yes will be trying to improve the UI more. Please try it more this weekend and let me know any more advice you have!

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Tattoos, that is a good use! Glad it helps you. Please let me know if you have any more feedback on what could be improved!
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Thank you for the info!

I did just add disabling Instagram and Twitter, does that help you? You can set it in the dropdown menu on the top right.

Do you think I should add Youtube? Youtube is pretty popular with most people.

Ahhh, yes. I understand what you mean with the black circles looking at it that way.... I was thinking it would be ok since iOS calendar has black circles as primary. I did remove the circle border I had around the white buttons to try to make it look weaker. I could make it colored, to maybe make it feel better. What would you do to fix this?

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Yes I agree, especially with wikipedia. But I was thinking sometimes people still want it in images so they can click and get directly to the image? What do you think about that case?

If you have some more examples of queries where this is happening, that would help me improve things!

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Yes that would be great, but yes Google doesn't provide that. I could improve it a bit if you give me some good examples. Right now there is definitions, math, weather, stocks, maps....

I could try to add some with some more feedback

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
:) happy it was a good surprise! Thank you for the nice words.

Ok 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! Stackoverflow is there right now. Not sure how best to trigger HN, let me know if you have any suggestions on that. Probably not good to show it all the time.

I did test the Google column wider for a couple of weeks, but ended up changing it the same as the other columns. Design wise it came out that consistency was a lot more valuable for UX. Let me know after you use it for a while and get use to things, I will reconsider adding this if it still would help you!

On ordering, you mean manually? Right now I am trying to do that all automatically without thinking or manual settings, and trying to optimize for relevancy. Let me know more about your problems or ideas here.

For changes, right now based on all the feedback, seems like I should consider more sources, sort options, and dark mode?

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
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! I will think of adding others like Amazon.
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
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!
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
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!
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Thank you for that super nice comment. Just trying to do something new and creative :)

If enough people ask to open source that is possible.

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!

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
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!
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
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!
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Just added option to disable Instagram and Twitter from ▼ menu on the right of the search input. Good suggestion!
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Yes that would be cool cloudflare CTO!

Not show how I could trigger that... any thoughts? I would need to correlate that search with a person, then know that he is super active on hackernews and find out the unique username. Problem is hackernews maybe isn't SEOed super well, so your profile doesn't show up in the results....

Let me know if you have any ideas on how....

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Awesome Artem! I will be reaching out about this. I have seen newscatcher before, looks like a solid option!
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Thank you, that is super help. I will review this in detail and see what I can do!
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Is there specific companies you would like turned off? Right now I'm going to add a way to disable Instagram and Twitter.
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