Devlog #1:

Ever since I switched from Google to DuckDuckGo, I’ve been annoyed by how there was no real way to easily do an advanced search. Google has an entire web page dedicated to making more precise searches pretty easy, but there’s nothing (that I know of) for other search engines.

So today I made the basic inputs fields using HTML and wrote some code to process it with JavaScript. Essentially, I collected the values as a single string for the website field and the “specific phrase” field, and used split(/\s+/) to make arrays out of the “contains all of the following” and “contains none of the following” fields. They are placed inside and object, and the contents of the object is then finally converted into the final query, which is copied onto the user’s clipboard.

I did try to directly bring the user to the search page, but it didn’t work so well, so pasting the query into an existing search engine will have to work for now.

I plan on turning this web page into a Chromium and Firefox extension after I’m done the webpage so that it’s even easier and more convenient to use.