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Have two engines I'd like to eventually see: 1) An engine that removes all results from corporate entities. Essentially all pages would be from mostly independ
by rjf72 8y ago
Have two engines I'd like to eventually see:
1) An engine that removes all results from corporate entities. Essentially all pages would be from mostly independent entities. Obviously this would not be a primary search engine in and of itself since it's restricting a lot of content that could be useful, but at times I'd rather see what people are creating instead heavily SEO'd corporation #64728321. The description of 'Yippy' seemed promising here, but a search for 'space' quickly lowered my optimism.
2) A truly semantic search engine. It's amazing that e.g. Google was founded 20 years ago. And it was a major step forward in that searches for 'Abraham Lincoln' would no longer return hardcore porn. But since then we really haven't really improved much beyond that. Imagine a search for 'pages updated within the past 30 days about the launch of the crew dragon excluding large media and all social media results' would actually return what I'm looking for. Wolfram Alpha [1] is a very good proof of concept here, where the entire internet could effectively be a subset of all results.
[1] - https://www.wolframalpha.com/ https://www.wolframalpha.com/
- ldoughty 8y agoI would love an engine that knows my blacklist. Stop showing me results from xyz.com! If they want to go the extra step and identify sister corps, that works too!
- maltelandwehr 8y agoGoogle once had this feature where you could blacklist domains. Unfortunately they removed it like 5 years ago :(
- CharlesW 8y agoYou can still do this with the "Personal Blocklist (by Google)" Chrome extension. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist-by-goo/nolijncfnkgaikbjbdaogikpmpbdcdef https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/personal-blocklist...
- rpedela 8y agoGoogle can sorta already do #2 and what you are asking for is very hard in it's entirety. Wolfram Alpha is a great prototype but it also shows how hard it is to do in the general case. When Wolfram works it is amazing, but it often doesn't work. The problem is that there is too much ambiguity for the current state of the art of NLP and ML. However I do think it is possible to do what you are asking if you are able to constrain the context to one or a few major topics.