I immediately thought in profiles as a nice extra feature when I saw this. And I even thought that it can be done automatically based on your search query without the need for profiles, I think it would be difficult to implement though.
Thanking for voting up the profile idea! It is a good one. Do you have any example searches? That would be helpful for me thinking about this. What searches would you want to see more of something else, that Google isn't already doing a good job of?
I could code things where if something shows up in Google results, it triggers another column of content from a specific source. Just need some more examples of what people are looking for.
- Searching for travels: I might want TripAdvisor (things to do and top restaurant pages), Youtube, Images, Skyscanner, Maps, Booking, Airbnb. Ideally, I would want some blogs with places to visit and things to do, but I understand there is no single good source for this (as far as I know).
- Searching for restaurants: I might want TripAdvisor, Images, Maps, The Fork.
- Searching for tech in general: StackOverflow, HN, Youtube, TechCrunch, Medium, IndieHackers.
- Searching for learning: Udemy, Coursera, FreeCodeCamp, Youtube, Google Scholar
In the examples above, I just mentioned some examples that could be useful to me, the key thing (as I mentioned it in another comment) is to be able to customize these columns, both in source (add/remove) and order, plus the width of these columns. I'm sure there are a lot of people out there with a lot of awesome ideas for profiles.
I really think this could be a great search engine experience.
I immediately thought in profiles as a nice extra feature when I saw this. And I even thought that it can be done automatically based on your search query without the need for profiles, I think it would be difficult to implement though.
Maybe is the future of searching, who knows!