Totally agree on aligning with the one with clearest incentives here

between the restrictions, apple dropping the ball on AI, and Gemini slowly improving, the idea of Google significantly leapfrogging Apple in end-user experience is not that unfathomable any more.

What is the magazine article they’re flipping through?

Unflattening by Nick Sousanis and The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero ;)

I'd like to add https://growth.design/psychology to an already great list that's building here.

This is so strange. Is it a substack hack? Is it a marketing strategy? It is bad truncation?

It's an impersonation. Not mine (Gayle).

this is amazing, thank you for building this, i was literally in the process of doing this with the same stack but as a chat bot.

would you be open sourcing soon? totally understand if you want to keep it private but if you are open sourcing there’s a few other podcasts i’m interested in running this on for myself, like some parenting ones.

We built something a while ago that lets you do this on top of an existing search engine like Google.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hypersearch/feojag...

It's 100% open source and client-side https://github.com/abhinavsharma/hypersearch

I wrote a post explaining why we think this is a more pragramtic approach here https://abhinavsharma.com/blog/google-alternatives

Nice project,

Goggles is also open-source, the main difference of the approach is that Goggles collaborates with Brave Search index while your approach uses any search index as source of URLs.

That difference is fundamental, a client can use a host search engine to do query expansions to build a large result set and then apply the filters and boosts that the user defines. However, that recall set is going to be in the order of hundreds URLs (more will take either too long or the client will be blocked); and I assume it would be challenging to apply thousands of filters at once. The smaller the result set, the smaller is the effect or benefit of the user-defined rules.

Goggles, because it collaborates with the host search engine — as of today only Brave search — can apply the filters and boosts to a recall set of tens of thousands of URLs. So the net effect of such rules is much larger.

Goggles is a bit more complicated, but it's for a reason.

Disclaimer: I work at Brave.

This is great! let me know if you'd like to integrate this as the reddit option in our desktop extension.

https://github.com/abhinavsharma/hypersearch

I built a desktop browser extension version (100% open source and GPL licensed) of this basic idea or side searching filtered to some sites only. It also just uses your browser's default search engine (so you can stick to DuckDuckGo for example). Usually I don't like to plug on HN but thought this is uniquely relevant.

It shows reddit (also HN, and others when relevant) filtered results in a sidebar for Google queries. It's auto expanded when there's a non-navigational query with no onebox (this is a increasingly becoming a good indicator of when Google is lacking decisiveness in a query).

Example: https://share.getcloudapp.com/QwuLL0NW For Chrome or Edge: http://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hypersearch/feojage... For Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hypersearch-d... Source: https://github.com/abhinavsharma/hypersearch

Feedback or change requests are appreciated via Github!

adding a direct link to the screenshot since it hit the limit https://p42.f3.n0.cdn.getcloudapp.com/items/QwuLL0NW/aa3989b...

While generally true, this isn't necessarily true if the customization is well-layered and the user is at a dead end in their search journey.

Too many products equate frictionless == featureless these days and there should be more power when the user needs it.

That's why we built a search extension that improves upon Google specifically in ways that it's weak https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30725933 http://abhinavsharma.com/blog/google-alternatives