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ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Love that! Would super appreciate you using Swurl instead of Google, plus any input on anything you would like improved!
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Happy you like it!

Thank you for your wise advice! I will have to choose carefully what to do and what not to do.

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Ha, would like to try Swurl on that! Must look awesome on a big mobile screen!
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Thank you! I'll be thinking on that expand idea. Anyone else feeling that, please comment here.

Yes I have seen a few mentions about searx, will look into that!

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Thank you for your detailed feedback!

It should look pretty clean, unless you have a browser that always shows scrollbars. What browser and operating system are you using? I think Windows and IE might show scrollbars more. Should look good on majority of popular browsers like mobile and Chrome. But if you give me more details I can look into how it looks on your side.

I did try adding a stronger header look before... but it ended up looking too busy and heavy. Right now I'm trying to lean towards minimal and clean as possible consider the amount of data going on. If you can give me a mock up of what you are thinking I would love to see that!

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Thank you Tyler! You've done some great work with motionarray! I love bootstrapped companies!

Would definitely be open to collaborators, will need to figure that out later. Today need to code a bunch of features :)

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Thank you! So all the time only Google and Twitter?

The design thinking I'm going right now is less options to figure out and click, and just make it easy to jump to any source, and do the best possible to show ranked and relevant sources. What do you think? Would love more input and ideas on this!

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Awesome :) Glad you like it and get it!

Yes that is the idea, people are already searching multiple sources. I was just thinking of how to do that better with a good simple UX.

Let me know if there are specific other sources you would like!

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
haha, that would be cool! Thank you for submitting that!
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Wahoo, thank you for making Swurl your default search. Ya on an ultrawide, it is beautiful to see!

If you give me some more examples, I will add them. I am seeing a lot for hacker news. But how do you think it should be triggered? Show all the time, or show only in certain cases?

For industry things, it would be super helpful if you tell me some exact ones since I'm not in all industries, so I would really know first hand. Thank you!

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
I know, Kagi did a great job with getting people to pay for their value. I saw that and was impressed! I mean I would rather people pay and have no ads. I really don't like ads.
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
lol, yep that is what I'm paying for your queries right now :) Would love to lower that cost. I'm just happy people are liking it right now. I could do subscription or ads in the future or try to find a free search source. What do people think?
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
:) Thank you for the nice words! Yes it is super different, glad people get it... I wasn't sure if it would be liked and understood.
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Thank you!

Hrmmm, I don't have Ubuntu. What version of FF are you using? Did everything not work, or certain parts? I know Firefox seems to block embeds.

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Awesome you bookmarked it. Glad it helps with what you were wanting!
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Thank you! Glad it works well for you!
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
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?
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Thank you! Yes I will be adding that in the next 30 days. Sort and results options for everything...
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
I will be adding more options. Is there some specific ones you would like to see?
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Yes you can do that in Chrome, here are some instructions https://swurl.com/default.html

What browser are you using?

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Thank you, glad you like the name, Swurl.

I would totally be cool with swapping out other search engines, but You.com and DDG don't give any a search API, so can't do that. If you know any good other search engines that I can integrate with an API let me know :)

ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Thank you, glad it looks good for you. Yes using Google search API. Yes paying out of my own pocket right now. If you know anyone at Google that could lower the price that would be great :) Ya, not break even right now...
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
haha, I totally agree. I think Google has a conflict of interest a bit there for the ranking. But if I could do that I would. At least on Swurl there is no ads.
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
I agree, isn't for everyone. But I think the kids these days like as much images as possible. Seems how things are trending... I could add an option for more test focused if more people are wanting this. Because add to this thread if anyone has similar thoughts.
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
No ads :)
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Twitter is just an embed. Is it working for you now? Maybe your browser is blocking the embed? What browser are you using?
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
That is a good search. Please try refreshing, it should work. Sometimes Insta errors. Or doesn't work due to Firefox blocking embeds. Let me know if it works now for you.
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Yes, sorry, that is a byproduct with this design, can't be fixed because of limitations on mobile browsers. What phone are you using? On most newer phones there is enough vertical height...
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Thank you for letting me know. Where else would it be better for you? Higher, center, left side? Odd I thought that is where everyone puts it...
ryes··on Show HN: A new search engine UX I've been working on in my free time
Thank you, appreciate the kind words!
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