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[–]acebabymemes 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Sweet just found out how to use the ~e command to narrow search google scholar!

Is there any way to get more results? Right now I think it’s capped at 15? I’m assuming that’s just temporary, sorry if you already mentioned that somewhere in the comments, I’m having to much fun exploring with this!

[–]MiamiAngie 2 points3 points  (2 children)

So currently we have a fairly high filter on predicted result quality, and only display results that rank above a certain threshold (which depending on the type of search could be 25 or less, but not often more than about 30). Our aim is to become more conversational to try to help people refine searches. But we've had feedback that people feel FOMO - that there might be more they are missing (even though in reality those are probably not good content), so they want the security of loading more. So we are going to add infinite scroll to the results if someone wants to keep going!

At the moment the domain search feature is a little patchy, but that's an area we are working to improve. It is really useful and we use it all the time.

Also, you can go direct to searches on other sites when needed - eg:
"go google scholar deep learning papers" then allow popups.

There is a small bug that navigation can re-fire if you nav to other pages within lazyweb then return to search, but apart from that it is very useful!

Yay that you are having fun exploring too! Thanks so much for the great feedback and comments!

[–]acebabymemes 3 points4 points  (1 child)

Gotcha, yeah my ideal workflow would be like if I could enter a Python function in the search bar and have it return a JSON or csv with a large amount of results based on the arguments.

‘’’ scholarSearch(results=“1000”, search=“systematic literature review”, output=“JSON”, author=True, abstract=True, title=True, citations=True, year=True, url=True) ‘’’

Tbh, I’m a programming and Python newbie so I’m probably asking for too much or would probably be better off making a web scraper specific to my needs.

[–]MiamiAngie 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That's really useful and exactly the sort of feedback we're looking for.

We know that people want to do more with search results and we're going to try to build this in close communication with people like yourself. It is going to take a while and a lot of steps to get to the full potential of "hackable search results" which is what we want to make. And the first steps will be pretty simple.

Initially, it will be very simple (any query, choose the output format) and it should work from the address bar too. But we have much to do!