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I'm beginning to think that there is a niche for a peculiar kind of a search engine. A search engine for static almost-none to none JavaScript pages. It would p
by hawski 9y ago
I'm beginning to think that there is a niche for a peculiar kind of a search engine. A search engine for static almost-none to none JavaScript pages. It would penalize pages for ad-network usage.
I would really like to not have in search results most sites that try to monetize on my attention. I want raw facts and opinions. No click-bait to grab my attention or feed my internal cave man with rage. No ad-networks or data extraction operations. Just pages put there by people that want to share knowledge and ideas. I mostly find it on pages that lack ads and often are pure HTML - no CSS and no JS. At least in areas that interest me.
Maybe there is a place for a search engine that would index only pages like that? It certainly would be easier than competing with Google on indexing whole of the attention-whoring Internet.
- throwaway0071 9y agohttps://stumbleupon.com https://stumbleupon.com
- bloaf 9y agohttps://millionshort.com/ https://millionshort.com/
- vxNsr 9y agoThis is terrific, I wanna add this as a ddg bang...
- whitef0x 9y agoJust filled out ddg's suggestion form to add this as a bang. I'll let you know if it goes live.
- dajohnson89 9y agoThis is awesome, never knew about this feature. I may have to give ddg another shot.
- nogridbag 9y agoLooks like the site's having some issues right now. Using some of the search criteria redirects me to https://millionshort.com/500 https://millionshort.com/500
- bloaf 9y agoSeveral search engines have had issues today, I haven't heard anything about a root cause though. http://downdetector.com/status/bing http://downdetector.com/status/bing
- jszymborski 9y agoAwesome, filtered top 10^6, removed sites with ads and e-commerce, typed in "enigma machine" and got some great gems: http://ciphermachines.com/index.html http://ciphermachines.com/index.html http://enigma.louisedade.co.uk/howitworks.html http://enigma.louisedade.co.uk/howitworks.html
- kushsharma 9y agoI don't know about that - I find that I get a lot of my information from sites that have user generated content such as Medium, reddit, and of course HN. I think it would be extremely hard to fit in sources like that to your search engine without letting in what I will admit is garbage. Would be very cool if it did manage to though!
- zilian 9y agoI had that feeling of discovering Internet again when I used tor and surfed hidden websites for the first time and read beginner's wikis, opinions pieces such as The Matrix, etc.
- pdimitar 9y agoI am not interested in most of the "deep web" but what you say sounds interesting. Could you please provide link to that Matrix thing? And other pieces you found interesting?
- zilian 9y agohttp://zqktlwi4fecvo6ri.onion/wiki/index.php/Main_Page http://zqktlwi4fecvo6ri.onion/wiki/index.php/Main_Page is the wiki I stumbled upon when I first accessed hidden websites, the matrix rant is the first link, but it's not in the form of what I remember (PS: I do not endorse the content, it's mostly a critic of our society's mechanisms).
- beezle 9y agoWell, there was Yanoff's list which was pretty great. I think 94 was around the time I stopped having to remember a lot of IP addresses.
- visakanv 9y agoI would love this
- derefr 9y ago> It certainly would be easier than competing with Google on indexing whole of the attention-whoring Internet. Probably not, actually; the kind of pages you describe would almost always be leaf nodes on the web graph, so your spider would need to walk "through" the attention-whoring parts to get to them, whether you kept records of doing so or not. (And it'd be very inefficient to not.)