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Show HN: Search Engine Selector – This is my default search engine now
I built this to escape from the Google bubble.
Instead of sticking with just one search engine, it nudges you to choose the most appropriate one for each query.
- Leftium 1y agoThere seems to be some logic to show some search engines in a different color, but I can't figure it out. Is it just until something (any single character) is typed into the search input box? edit: the purple color was just the "visited" link color. The link color changes because the links are updated to include the query (thus changing the visited status.)
- Leftium 1y agoMy own take on this: https://multi-launch.leftium.com/ https://multi-launch.leftium.com/ - Simultaneously opens multiple search engines in their own tabs - Useful for comparing results, especially for translation and shopping/price search sites - Very original version was just for image search: https://is.leftium.com/ https://is.leftium.com/
- arnel 1y agoCool
- Leftium 1y agoAnother take on this: https://zbang.vercel.app/ https://zbang.vercel.app/ - Search bangs redirect the search to a specific search engine - For example: `!ddg search term` or `search term !ddg` searches for `search term` using DuckDuckGo - As a bonus, the input is more ergonomic for mobile and/or multiline input. - Insert `!` via double-space - Auto-growing multi-line input with fullscreen mode; RETURN is a newline, by default. - (SHIFT-RETURN, or "double-keypress RETURN" submits form.) - Auto-complete bang triggers with "double-keypress" of QQ, WW, EE, etc