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Web search suggestion from actual sources #2484

Open Gurrrra opened 5 months ago

Gurrrra commented 5 months ago

When using the different web search functions it would be really nice to have suggestions pop up as well. So in the settings we could have a field for each search engine suggestion URL (if they have any) :)

And come to think of it, getting some actual search results directly in Flow would be awesome as well!

taooceros commented 5 months ago

I think we already can do this?

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well the ux is a bit hidden.

Gurrrra commented 5 months ago

Yeah that one is a bit hidden, but it also relies on either of those three search engines for suggestions which might not be preferable. In most cases this might not matter so much, but in others I think it does, like in this IMDb example below that's filled with random stuff that's not relevant in that type of search. Though having actual search results directly in Flow is still something that would be really really handy, especially when searching stuff like IMDb (and might make that search suggestion change less needed?).

And if I'm allowed to add a bit more to this it would be nice that when you've written whatever key Flow would then disable the rest of web searches to only focus on that particular one, removed the key and put that particular search image in there instead. Example below :) flowimdborg flowimdb

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taooceros commented 3 months ago

Yeah that one is a bit hidden, but it also relies on either of those three search engines for suggestions which might not be preferable. In most cases this might not matter so much, but in others I think it does, like in this IMDb example below that's filled with random stuff that's not relevant in that type of search.

Though having actual search results directly in Flow is still something that would be really really handy, especially when searching stuff like IMDb (and might make that search suggestion change less needed?).

And if I'm allowed to add a bit more to this it would be nice that when you've written whatever key Flow would then disable the rest of web searches to only focus on that particular one, removed the key and put that particular search image in there instead. Example below :)

flowimdborg

flowimdb

The problem is different websites used different api to encode the suggestion, which makes it rather hard to have a universal configuration. I do think it might be a good idea but implementation wise I don't have a good idea about creating an extensible configuration for different source.

Gurrrra commented 3 months ago

Some sites do have a suggest URL, so would be nice with an option for that, or option to use google, or neither :)

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