[hornbaker]

Tons of results for me: https://hn.googleblade.com/hn/ai

It can do something as simple as a site: search on Google, but you can string configs together to join up 20-30 sites together, create tabs to split out by sentiment, split out by number or dollar ranges, etc. etc. I have barely scratched the surface with the Blades there now, hoping to see some creative ones surface.

[jklinger410]

The point is that yes, all of this can be done with Google operators.

These are just links to those operators.

[hornbaker]

Well, yes, if you don't mind typing or pasting the same combo of 20-30 different search operators in Google.com, it can be done there.

But there are some other subtle differences: you get thumbnail images with search results (if available) with Blades, and you don't get a captcha to prove you're human if your search volume or rate is out of bounds on a Blade. (These are features of CSEs, not something I've hacked.)