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0 pointsjustusthane2y ago0 comments

It's basically a way to restrict search results to particular websites. So you could create a "programming" lens including Stack Overflow and Github, for example, and a search using that lens would only return results from those sites.

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prometheon12y ago

Can lenses be shared with other users? And is there some kind of shared repository for them where we could crowdsource for example a lens with the urls of all Python docs of popular packages?

freediver2y ago

They can be shared in a Team plan, we are still thinking how to do this in a safe way for individual users (to protect against malicious intent).

solardev2y ago

So how would that apply to academic searches? Do you manually create a lens for the journals and arxiv etc.?

ravenstine2y ago

There's actually a built-in Academic lens they provide, although I haven't really used it much, favoring my own "Research" lens. It's not very sophisticated, but since I'm mostly into research related to health, I use this a lot:

arxiv.org, nih.gov, researchgate.net, *.edu

justusthaneOP2y ago

I assume so.

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