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Re:Show HN: New drag and drop search engine by bananicorn on Thursday January 23, 2020 @05:53AM (#22126478)
Interesting concept, really clean execution - although I wonder: Where do you see the use-case?

Something domain-specific, like maybe cooking recipes where you combine icons representing the ingredients?

A search where you could mix and match all kinds of game genres?

It would have to be something where the icons are understandable at a glance, and where you can just throw them into the 'pot' without much further thought.

As it is right here, I don't see why I would use this over a traditional text-based search engine, but I could imagine this working rather well in a more confined setting, maybe embedded in another website :)

Re:Show HN: New drag and drop search engine by dropicon on Thursday January 23, 2020 @06:17AM (#22126598)
Thanks for the feedback, much appreciated.
Re:Show HN: New drag and drop search engine by splittydev on Thursday January 23, 2020 @10:42AM (#22128388)
Looks pretty cool and I generally like the concept, but most combinations come up with 0 results.
Re:Show HN: New drag and drop search engine by splittydev on Thursday January 23, 2020 @10:47AM (#22128430)
For example, if I put in Flights and Funny, I'd expect to get funny flight stories. If I type the query into google as "flights" "funny" I'm getting exactly the type of results I'd expect from your search engine as well. Just some constructive criticism. I really like the idea.
Re:Show HN: New drag and drop search engine by dropicon on Thursday January 23, 2020 @12:55PM (#22129875)
Thanks, constructive criticism very welcome. Yes you are absolutely right. There isn't enough search data yet but it will improve over the coming weeks as more sites are trawled.
Re:Show HN: New drag and drop search engine by nquryshi on Thursday January 23, 2020 @01:09AM (#22125250)
Super interesting! Wondering if this can potentially have a practical use case over google?
Re:Show HN: New drag and drop search engine by dropicon on Thursday January 23, 2020 @04:30AM (#22126129)
Thank you. Yes hopefully it can and it works really well on desktop or mobile.
Re:Show HN: New drag and drop search engine by doublerabbit on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:01PM (#22119357)
Well that’s refreshing.
Re:Show HN: New drag and drop search engine by dropicon on Wednesday January 22, 2020 @12:28PM (#22119746)
Thanks for taking the time to take a look.