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You might call this a search engine based on the principle of Information Neutrality. “Information Neutrality is the principle to treat all information provide

You might call this a search engine based on the principle of Information Neutrality. “Information Neutrality is the principle to treat all information provided (by a service) equally. The information provided, after being processed by an information-neutral service, is the same for every user requesting it, independent of the user’s attributes, including, e.g., origin, history or personal preferences and independent of the financial or influential interest of the service provider, as well as independent of the timeliness of information." I wrote about this in relation to search [0]. We need to be allowed more freedom to choose search engines and services. One (default or selected) choice for search is unhealthy. We shouldn't have to choose between Google or Bing; DuckDuckGo or Startpage; Brave or Ecosia; Mojeek or Gigablast ..... Personally I use all 8 of these and more, as also explained [0]. [0] https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/09/multiple-choice-in-search.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/09/multiple-choice-in-search.ht...

betwixthewires 5y ago
I'm with you (you run a great engine BTW) and I've considered the UX of some attempts to help users do this. I like Firefox's UI when searching, where you can select the search engine of choice while typing a query. I like customizable metasearch engines like searx, I think it is a phenomenal idea. I wish more niche engines would implement OpenSearch so that they could easily be added. I have considered just making a simple web page with search boxes for multiple engines for personal use as a default home page, but there's friction and again, lots of engines I'd like to use don't implement OpenSearch. I wonder if there's some novel UX approaches to this out there. Meta search engines seem to be the best way so far to do it but there's the problem of customizing ranking, relevance of results and the like that just compounds the problems users experience.

betwixthewires 5y ago

I'm with you (you run a great engine BTW) and I've considered the UX of some attempts to help users do this. I like Firefox's UI when searching, where you can select the search engine of choice while typing a query. I like customizable metasearch engines like searx, I think it is a phenomenal idea. I wish more niche engines would implement OpenSearch so that they could easily be added. I have considered just making a simple web page with search boxes for multiple engines for personal use as a default home page, but there's friction and again, lots of engines I'd like to use don't implement OpenSearch. I wonder if there's some novel UX approaches to this out there. Meta search engines seem to be the best way so far to do it but there's the problem of customizing ranking, relevance of results and the like that just compounds the problems users experience.