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taking care of google ;-) I have a search tool / catalog of duckduckgo !bang operators https://mosermichael.github.io/duckduckbang/html/main.html https://moserm

taking care of google ;-) I have a search tool / catalog of duckduckgo !bang operators https://mosermichael.github.io/duckduckbang/html/main.html https://mosermichael.github.io/duckduckbang/html/main.html - i am hoping that it allows for better discoverability of specialized search engines. The latest addition is a description for each search engine, just hover over the name, and you get a description derived from the sites meta and title tags. I think that specialised search engines are gaining ground, it has become easier to set one up, thanks to elasticsearch/lucene. They can be quite good, for a limited domain, and they don't have to invade your privacy in order to find out what you are looking for. I think that what is missing are tools like this, that would aid the discovery and use of these search engines. I hope that this will allow them to eat into the market from the 'low end'. The projects source is here: https://github.com/mosermichael/duckduckbang https://github.com/mosermichael/duckduckbang Unfortunately they don't invest too much into !bang operators at duckduckgo, however that's my input data...

sundarurfriend 5y ago
This looks good. I expect their main page https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang will feel overwhelming for most users if displayed this way, but this is much better for serendipitous findings - both have their place. Is there a mobile equivalent to the hovering, to get the short description you mention?
- MichaelMoser123 5y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion, i didn't think about it yet. The whole page isn't quite optimized for a mobile user experience. I think that i would have to add a link that brings up the help text; maybe the link should be in the form of a question mark icon, similar to what they have at https://m.xkcd.com/ https://m.xkcd.com/ what do you think? I am not much of an expert in matters if web UI/frontend, so that any advice is very much appreciated!
  - sundarurfriend 5y ago
    > maybe the link should be in the form of a question mark icon, similar to what they have at https://m.xkcd.com/ https://m.xkcd.com/ If the help text will be displayed in a little floating window like a tooltip, this makes sense, as the expected UI. I had in mind a short description box opening up underneath the entry and showing the info (as part of the page flow, not floating), and for that case I had the expander arrows [1] in mind. In either case, the important thing IMO is to have enough interaction area to comfortably click on it without having to precisely hit the arrow/question mark itself. [1] like mentioned here: https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/5736/138 https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/5736/138

sundarurfriend 5y ago

This looks good. I expect their main page https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang will feel overwhelming for most users if displayed this way, but this is much better for serendipitous findings - both have their place. Is there a mobile equivalent to the hovering, to get the short description you mention?

MichaelMoser123 5y ago
Thanks for the suggestion, i didn't think about it yet. The whole page isn't quite optimized for a mobile user experience. I think that i would have to add a link that brings up the help text; maybe the link should be in the form of a question mark icon, similar to what they have at https://m.xkcd.com/ https://m.xkcd.com/ what do you think? I am not much of an expert in matters if web UI/frontend, so that any advice is very much appreciated!
- sundarurfriend 5y ago
  > maybe the link should be in the form of a question mark icon, similar to what they have at https://m.xkcd.com/ https://m.xkcd.com/ If the help text will be displayed in a little floating window like a tooltip, this makes sense, as the expected UI. I had in mind a short description box opening up underneath the entry and showing the info (as part of the page flow, not floating), and for that case I had the expander arrows [1] in mind. In either case, the important thing IMO is to have enough interaction area to comfortably click on it without having to precisely hit the arrow/question mark itself. [1] like mentioned here: https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/5736/138 https://ux.stackexchange.com/a/5736/138