> Is there a broader need for a service like this?
This is a good question to ask of people who are like your aging parents (asking here in HN may not be very useful if your potential customers are not HN readers). If you talk to enough people you'll get a sense of who really wants it.
Bizarrely, many search engines seem to think it would be helpful to truncate the titles of search results. For example, the example search "python exceptions" suggested by Kagi on their homepage results in:
> How to Handle Exceptions in Python: A Detailed Visual...
A search on DuckDuckGo displays the complete title.
This is a good question to ask of people who are like your aging parents (asking here in HN may not be very useful if your potential customers are not HN readers). If you talk to enough people you'll get a sense of who really wants it.