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The index is super tiny. A search for "the" got 112 results. Seems like a quick way to explore the entire index. Also it indexes pages twice if you submit the

The index is super tiny. A search for "the" got 112 results. Seems like a quick way to explore the entire index. Also it indexes pages twice if you submit them twice, so that needs to be fixed. But for some crazy reason, I kinda like this. It feels like the 90s internet. The links included so far have that same random mix of lots of nerdy links, homepages & personal blogs, a few religious sites, and the occasional big news website. Because there's no crawler yet, it's limited to the specific pages people thought were noteworthy. And because the index is so limited, I'm stumbling on interesting things. It's so weird looking at this and thinking "Y'know, maybe this could also work if the links were curated into yet another hierarchical officious oracle", or "if this site let me pay to show a small text ad on the side when someone searched for a relevant keyword, I might spend a few dollars here". Someone submitted the "Strawberry Pop-Tart Blow-Torches" page, which is one of my earliest internet memories. Whoever submitted that, thank you for the nostalgia!

ThinkingGuy 8y ago
My reaction was similar. The first search I entered was "Current weather in [my hometown]." Nothing close. So I generalized a bit to "National Weather Service." The first result was a VPN company website. Then I realized you can (should) enter search terms AND a URL. After submitting weather.gov's URL, a search for "National Weather Service" instantly starting returning weather.gov as the first result. As the parent commenter said, it very much has the feel of the 90's web that I remember so fondly (and perhaps inaccurately). I'll definitely continue to keep an eye on this project.
ehsankia 8y ago
I was really confused by this too. I searched a Steam, Twitch and a bunch of other sites and it didn't find any of them. Then I did Youtube and it took 12 seconds (following queries were fast, I guess I was the first to search Youtube). This thing isn't slaying anything.
- misterman0 8y ago
  Just wait until I get a real sword. My current is one virtual CPU and 1 GB RAM. Last I looked there was 2 GB space on the HDD. I'm on an entry level B1S Azure VM.

ThinkingGuy 8y ago

My reaction was similar. The first search I entered was "Current weather in [my hometown]." Nothing close. So I generalized a bit to "National Weather Service." The first result was a VPN company website. Then I realized you can (should) enter search terms AND a URL. After submitting weather.gov's URL, a search for "National Weather Service" instantly starting returning weather.gov as the first result. As the parent commenter said, it very much has the feel of the 90's web that I remember so fondly (and perhaps inaccurately). I'll definitely continue to keep an eye on this project.

ehsankia 8y ago

I was really confused by this too. I searched a Steam, Twitch and a bunch of other sites and it didn't find any of them. Then I did Youtube and it took 12 seconds (following queries were fast, I guess I was the first to search Youtube). This thing isn't slaying anything.

misterman0 8y ago
Just wait until I get a real sword. My current is one virtual CPU and 1 GB RAM. Last I looked there was 2 GB space on the HDD. I'm on an entry level B1S Azure VM.