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Ask HN: Custom search engine you wish existed?

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I'm currently experimenting with a couple of text and spatial search technologies, by implementing them on some datasets of interest to myself - arXiv, PubMed, PubChem, OpenStreetMaps are on my radar.

I was wondering what niche search engines you wish existed. If it feels challenging and useful to multiple people, I'll think about implementing it and making it available to everybody. Any other ideas for the datasets mentioned above are also welcome.

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Here's a somewhat search-related idea I've thought would be useful (almost wanted to build it myself): searching for political news with different viewpoints.

For example, if I search "Trump ate a banana", then I get articles on that event from Democratic, Republican, and other points of view - possibly tagged as such. I've always felt that it's tough nowadays to get a clear view on things because it's easy to fall into an echo chamber and only see articles that a certain group supports.