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I want a browser extension (or native feature) that searches several engines at once and display's the results side-by-side. Sort of like this: +----------
by packet_nerd 7y ago
I want a browser extension (or native feature) that searches several engines at once and display's the results side-by-side. Sort of like this:
+-------------------------------+
| Search string |
+---------+----------+----------+
| | | |
| Bing | DDG | Google |
| | | |
| Hit 1 | Hit 1 | Hit 1 |
| | | |
| Hit 2 | Hit 2 | Hit 2 |
| | | |
| Hit 3 | Hit 3 | Hit 3 |
| | | |
+---------+----------+----------+
And I want to be able to pull it up instantly with a keyboard shortcut.
The extension would need to be smart enough to de-duplicate hits across the different engines.
Finally, I really REALLY want to pay for the search engines themselves (make it a subscription at $50/m or something), because then I know their incentives are aligned with my needs rather than with their ad business's needs.
I don't think any of the search engines have search API's? Maybe they could make API access a paid feature.
- stilisstuk 7y agoCustomise and selfhost Searx? A lot of work. But.
- iudqnolq 7y ago> I don't think any of the search engines have search API's? Maybe they could make API access a paid feature. Google search API: https://lmgtfy.com/?q=Google+search+api https://lmgtfy.com/?q=Google+search+api
- amelius 7y agoA browser plugin could turn a search engine's UI into an API. Of course, the search engines would work against it, so you'd have to update the plugin regularly. It would be a bit like how YouTube-DL works but for search engines instead of videos.
- stiray 7y agoI am self hosting searx, it is not exactly the same but it prioritize results found on most search engines, meaning that the paid results on google will sink if they werent paid also on ddg and bing (and others). It works great, I am using it exclusively for more than a year (I have do a redirection in my squid server from google to it, to avoid habbit of writting google.com as url), give it a try. Completely googles for almost 5 years, android rom baked at home with microg, self hosted nextcloud, searx, mail server and squid doing permanent caching on cdns and removing all the tracking junk from pages.
- brantonb 7y agoYears ago, Microsoft built an internal site that showed Bing side-by-side with Google. Employees were encouraged to use it and report when Microsoft’s results were worse than Google’s. It got employees to actually use Bing, sent feedback to the team, and gave employees easy access to better search results when Microsoft’s didn’t suffice. It was pretty great. Note: this was before Bing branding, but I forget the exact branding of the time.
- Fnoord 7y agoLive Search? [1] I remember Microsoft heavily trying to build on this Live(.com) branding. Or was it still MSN Search? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_(search_engine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bing_(search_engine)