Show HN: Peekier – A new way to search the web

Thank you for sharing this, it&#x27;s a great first impression.<p>- Clean design - Fast search results with previews - Layout options - User privacy<p>On the second visit, I noticed the &quot;tags&quot; feature: it&#x27;s possible to narrow down the search results by suggested key words. Very nice user experience.<p>One idea: perhaps there can be a description of how to set Peekier as the default search engine (for example: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;install" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;duckduckgo.com&#x2F;install</a>).<p>I wonder about the practical benefits of having previews, whether it helps me find what I need quicker. The movement of the eyes while scanning through the results feels a little less efficient (scan sideways; look for beginning of next row; repeat) - compared to scanning a list straight down.<p>Still, the site is intriguing. I&#x27;ll continue using it to see how it feels.<p>Another idea, not so related to the search engine feature: I wish there was an &quot;explore&quot; page (like on GitHub) to see what&#x27;s new&#x2F;popular&#x2F;etc.

Another question I have is... who&#x27;s behind peekier? And how is it funded (servers are expensive, development costs, etc), how does it make money (Google makes money precisely because it doesn&#x27;t offer those privacy features), and if it doesn&#x27;t make money what&#x27;s the agenda behind it?

Suggestions:<p>1. Do a list results view like Google - you&#x27;re competing on so many levels that you don&#x27;t want to challenge standards unless you have massive justifications that you&#x27;re UX is better. I don&#x27;t think the tiles are better and even if they were a little better it wouldn&#x27;t be enough to challenge the paradigm.<p>2. Can you (or do you) restrict search results that have a high AdBlock&#x2F;PrivacyBadger score? I&#x27;ve always wanted that so much more than I&#x27;m concerned about my privacy vis-a-vis my search engine provider?

<i>Your privacy is of the outmost importance...</i><p>You probably meant to say <i>utmost</i>. Outmost could imply a lesser importance or the complete opposite if read into too much.

That is definitely a very interesting search engine, but I&#x27;m personally only interested if this will be open sourced. Currently I host my own instance of <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;searx.me" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;searx.me</a> which is a search engine aggregator, which only sends the least amount of needed information, it even works with yacy a completely decentralized search engine.<p>That said there are some interesting ideas here, but I need to use a lot more to compare results to google, so far they&#x27;ve been pretty accurate Screenshots are pretty neat, but can also be distracting. I like what duckduckgo does with its instant answers, giving me a short answer that doesn&#x27;t distract the overall flow of reading.<p>Edit: searx even somewhat supports ddg instant answers, though very wip.

It looks great! Where do the results come from? Another search engine (a-las duckduckgo) or is it crawled internally?

This is really cool! I&#x27;m honestly sad DDG doesn&#x27;t use this, because i really like them, but i had no inherent &quot;feature&quot; <i>(personally)</i> that i felt was better than Google Search. This, seems to be better <i>(assuming the search results are even halfway decent)</i>.<p>I could definitely stand for a &quot;no animation mode&quot;, though. Ie, screw the css animations. They may be nice to make your site pretty, but when i am trying to ingest lots of results to find the correct one, i want things <i>fast</i>. The animations feel far too slow and cumbersome.

Very impressive project! It&#x27;s results seem pretty good - what&#x27;s the size of the index?

The previews are nice, but they do tend to catch the eye and make it difficult to quickly filter out unwanted results. It&#x27;s hard to skim the result titles. I do like the tiles, however.<p>The clickable suggestions at the top are an awesome idea. It&#x27;s an improvement from having to start typing again to get suggestions.<p>Overall, this looks polished and well-designed. Competition in the search engine space is still sorely needed.

Suggestion: Start loading more results when I&#x27;m scrolling already. No need to display some text saying I should scroll. It should just work.

I really like the look of this. One suggestion - keep the amount of characters in the title the same as google (50-60 chars). Most websites optimize for this length and without it you miss some important info in titles.<p>Also the description for your site needs to be recrawled :)<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peekier.com&#x2F;#!site%3Apeekier.com" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peekier.com&#x2F;#!site%3Apeekier.com</a>

Interesting concept. I am keeping a stack of a few million screenshots from the newscombinator, but I am not using it. Actually I thought about deleting them recently because I found the concept of having full-screen screenshots pretty bad. But now that I see it, I like it.<p>One question tough: How large is your index? I haven&#x27;t seen any information on that, or did I miss anything?

From <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peekier.com&#x2F;about" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;peekier.com&#x2F;about</a><p>&quot;Peekier (pronounced &#x2F;&#x27;pi·ki·er&#x2F;)&quot;<p>If it&#x27;s spelled exactly as it would be if you wanted it to be pronounced another way, it should be pronounced that way

Jesus Christ, though... I searched for &quot;dog&quot; and I&#x27;m getting &quot;dog fucks teen porn video&quot; with porn videos among the most relevant results...<p>(nope, I don&#x27;t have weird cookies in my browser and it was an incognito session anyway)

Is there a way of turning off the screenshot previews? I don&#x27;t particularly need it all the time and I&#x27;d imagine it stresses the engine a bit more than spitting things out in text-based, list format.

That&#x27;s surprisingly good at finding what I&#x27;m searching for. Great work. Now just get the images loading a lot faster and I might even try to switch from Google.

Cool approach!<p>If I type in &quot;adult learning&quot;, I get no search results at all (no results found). A slightly different search, &quot;Adult education&quot;, gives me the results I would expect. Ditto just &quot;learning&quot;, just &quot;adult&quot;; so I&#x27;m not sure if its an issue in the index, or the strict search filtering..

How does it compare to DuckDuckGo?

This is so refreshing, loving the layout and simple customizations. Would love to see a new search engine in the space :) Good Luck!

Cool, what if adding a timestamp to each result? In Google search I always use timestamp for filtering results visually.

I love it! Keep going. Feels very nice on mobile too. Very good selection of settings, and right where I want them

Looks really nice. Id wish that you could change the layout of the search results though.

Is there a easy way to make this my default search engine on Chrome?