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Show HN: Qdorks.com – Advanced Google search query composer

by adriaanb on 11/30/23, 2:50 PM with 34 comments

Hi HN,

qdorks.com is an advanced Google search query composer I have been working on lately. It makes it super easy to write complex Google search queries and save them for later usage.

Main features:

* Query composer with complex grouping, logical and exclusion operators per clause.

* Share your queries with others so they can easily copy and modify the query.

* No need to register; only when you want to save the queries.

* AI support for PRO users.

* More to come...

I am pretty happy with how it works and would love your feedback! Happy to answer any questions. Thank you!

  • by therein on 12/1/23, 2:19 AM

    This looks nice, no complaints there.

    But all of this just for Google to ignore the advanced query parameters and show me something else it thinks I want is unfortunate.

  • by quickthrower2 on 12/1/23, 10:55 AM

    It is a great idea. It feels like a feature missing from Google (and probably impossible for Google to deliver being hampered by material design)

  • by adaboese on 12/1/23, 1:16 AM

    Related to this, does anyone a good way to search only for articles?

    I have a use case that requires that I only surface search results that are articles (news, blog posts, etc) rather than anything else.

    The best I've gotten to so far is doing queries such as inurl:blog

  • by kylecazar on 11/30/23, 11:32 PM

    Neat! I am still not sure exactly how Google's 'Country' filter works.

  • by victorbjorklund on 12/1/23, 7:49 AM

    Doesnt seem to work on safari on iOS. Not responsive design and nothing happens when I press search button. Great idea though!

  • by fraXis on 12/1/23, 2:39 AM

    Great job! Please add/create a colorful favicon to the site so I can save it in my Google "bookmarks bar" without the name. Right now, it looks like this with a dark theme:

    https://imgur.com/a/SNmzISI

  • by mistermann on 12/1/23, 1:31 AM

    Some more options between last month and last year would be lovely, one of my main pet peeves about Google search.

  • by akikoo on 12/1/23, 9:25 AM

    Looks like it's missing the verbatim search?

    tbs=li:1

  • by erhaetherth on 12/1/23, 5:35 AM

    The Country select box should allow you to type characters when it's focused. The native <select> will do this out of the box.

  • by geraldwhen on 11/30/23, 11:40 PM

    Google is objectively worse than all other search engines. I don’t know why I would want to search Google more.