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Well that is shockingly good! I was not expecting somthing so good. Nice job! I would ask for one thing - the ability to turn off certain sources. Instagram is

by idk1 4y ago

Well that is shockingly good! I was not expecting somthing so good. Nice job! I would ask for one thing - the ability to turn off certain sources. Instagram is not of, and never will be of interest to me. Edit: 2nd suggestion / feature request: add ability to 'pin' columns to a position. 3rd suggestion / feature request: ability to add scoped google columns, I would love a column that has `site:stackoverflow.com` prefixed to all searches in the 2nd column.

etrautmann 4y ago
Yep, fully agree that source selection would be huge here
- ryes 4y ago
  Is there some specific other sources you would like me to add? Could totally do it quickly if it would be helpful for everyone. Right now I'm thinking about the pinning and ability to add any site. Kind of tricky to implement design vs simplicity wise.
  - ricardo81 4y ago
    Good overview of search alternatives here https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/ https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...
    - ryes 4y ago
      Thank you, that is super help. I will review this in detail and see what I can do!
abricq 4y ago
If OP implements these changes, I might actually start using this for real ! It is true that it is brilliant.
- ryes 4y ago
  Cool! Would love to have more people getting value out of Swurl. I will be coding a bunch of these suggestions today! What changes were you specifically needing? Just turning off Instagram? Sorry, the 1st comment was edited, so not sure what you would like.
  - abricq 4y ago
    - The possibility to select which column is present - The possibility to add a column for google search with flags, such as `site:stackoverflow.com` - the poossibility to rearrange the order by which columns are displayed Thanks a lot for the heads up and congratulations on creating such a cool UI ! I showed it around at work and everyone loved it ;)
    - ryes 4y ago
      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...
      - abricq 4y ago
        I personally enjoy a lot more when things are manually customizable, but honestly I also don't think that I represent the majority of users ! So yeah, I think that the option to trigger a full manual ordering of the columns would be another great feature :)
        4y ago
ryes 4y ago
Thank you for the kind compliment, that is appreciated :) Good feedback! Ok I will definitely add an option to turn off Instagram and Twitter. Is there anything besides those? Not sure I want to add an option to turn off anything, trying to limit the complexity and number of options. Pinning... could you give me some examples of columns you would always want pinned to the front vs dynamic based on relevancy? Or some example queries? That would be super helpful. I like the pinning idea though! Just need some help thinking about this. So on scoped google columns, that is basically how it is being done right now: https://swurl.com/?q=php+array+sort https://swurl.com/?q=php+array+sort Usually google search with site: is better than the site search itself. But usually I customize it a bit if it is helpful. Stackoverflow is already there, and reddit. Is there any other specific ones you would like? I can code it really quickly.
- riquito 4y ago
  If you dislike some companies, you probably don't want to ever see their content, risk to load any kind of tracking information, or help them with an increase in traffic. I'd love too a turn off feature, or a filter of some kind
  - ryes 4y ago
    Is there specific companies you would like turned off? Right now I'm going to add a way to disable Instagram and Twitter.
- ryes 4y ago
  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!
Kelone 4y ago
If sources selection and pinning to a specific column becomes a thing, I can see myself using it instead of google. It's great!
codegeek 4y ago
I agree. It is really good. But I also want the ability to select my sources. For example, I don't care about Instagram or Pinterest either but there may be people who don't care about twitter. My recommendation is to show everything by default and let the user "uncheck" the source for now. In phase 2 may be, you could make that a User level setting/default. One source to add: HN :). For example, I know some very well known people are very active on HN. It will be nice to pull their comment history right there :). For example, "cloudflare CTO".
- jgrahamc 4y ago
  For example, "cloudflare CTO". https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jgrahamc https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jgrahamc
  - codegeek 4y ago
    Yep I know :). That's exactly what I meant. If this tool can pull your HN history right here: https://swurl.com/?q=cloudflare+CTO https://swurl.com/?q=cloudflare+CTO
  - ryes 4y ago
    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 4y ago
  Just added option to disable Instagram and Twitter from ▼ menu on the right of the search input. Good suggestion!

by idk1 4y ago

etrautmann 4y ago

Yep, fully agree that source selection would be huge here

ryes 4y ago
Is there some specific other sources you would like me to add? Could totally do it quickly if it would be helpful for everyone. Right now I'm thinking about the pinning and ability to add any site. Kind of tricky to implement design vs simplicity wise.
- ricardo81 4y ago
  Good overview of search alternatives here https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes/ https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...
  - ryes 4y ago
    Thank you, that is super help. I will review this in detail and see what I can do!

abricq 4y ago

If OP implements these changes, I might actually start using this for real ! It is true that it is brilliant.

ryes 4y ago
Cool! Would love to have more people getting value out of Swurl. I will be coding a bunch of these suggestions today! What changes were you specifically needing? Just turning off Instagram? Sorry, the 1st comment was edited, so not sure what you would like.
- abricq 4y ago
  - The possibility to select which column is present - The possibility to add a column for google search with flags, such as `site:stackoverflow.com` - the poossibility to rearrange the order by which columns are displayed Thanks a lot for the heads up and congratulations on creating such a cool UI ! I showed it around at work and everyone loved it ;)
  - ryes 4y ago
    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...
    - abricq 4y ago
      I personally enjoy a lot more when things are manually customizable, but honestly I also don't think that I represent the majority of users ! So yeah, I think that the option to trigger a full manual ordering of the columns would be another great feature :)
      - 4y ago

ryes 4y ago

Thank you for the kind compliment, that is appreciated :) Good feedback! Ok I will definitely add an option to turn off Instagram and Twitter. Is there anything besides those? Not sure I want to add an option to turn off anything, trying to limit the complexity and number of options. Pinning... could you give me some examples of columns you would always want pinned to the front vs dynamic based on relevancy? Or some example queries? That would be super helpful. I like the pinning idea though! Just need some help thinking about this. So on scoped google columns, that is basically how it is being done right now: https://swurl.com/?q=php+array+sort https://swurl.com/?q=php+array+sort Usually google search with site: is better than the site search itself. But usually I customize it a bit if it is helpful. Stackoverflow is already there, and reddit. Is there any other specific ones you would like? I can code it really quickly.

riquito 4y ago
If you dislike some companies, you probably don't want to ever see their content, risk to load any kind of tracking information, or help them with an increase in traffic. I'd love too a turn off feature, or a filter of some kind
- ryes 4y ago
  Is there specific companies you would like turned off? Right now I'm going to add a way to disable Instagram and Twitter.
ryes 4y ago
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!

Kelone 4y ago

If sources selection and pinning to a specific column becomes a thing, I can see myself using it instead of google. It's great!

codegeek 4y ago

I agree. It is really good. But I also want the ability to select my sources. For example, I don't care about Instagram or Pinterest either but there may be people who don't care about twitter. My recommendation is to show everything by default and let the user "uncheck" the source for now. In phase 2 may be, you could make that a User level setting/default. One source to add: HN :). For example, I know some very well known people are very active on HN. It will be nice to pull their comment history right there :). For example, "cloudflare CTO".

jgrahamc 4y ago
For example, "cloudflare CTO". https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jgrahamc https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=jgrahamc
- codegeek 4y ago
  Yep I know :). That's exactly what I meant. If this tool can pull your HN history right here: https://swurl.com/?q=cloudflare+CTO https://swurl.com/?q=cloudflare+CTO
- ryes 4y ago
  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 4y ago
Just added option to disable Instagram and Twitter from ▼ menu on the right of the search input. Good suggestion!