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There's also Wiby, a search engine for "oldschool", static, single-person-curated sites: https://wiby.me https://wiby.me I've copy-pasted this to HN previously
by marttt 8y ago
There's also Wiby, a search engine for "oldschool", static, single-person-curated sites: https://wiby.me https://wiby.me
I've copy-pasted this to HN previously, but it's worth posting again -- explanation from their About page:
"Search engines like Google are indispensable, able to find answers to all of your technical questions; but along the way, the fun of web surfing was lost. In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn't great at finding those gems, its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well; but finding things you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today are created using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic features in order to mask the lack of content available on them. Those pages contribute to the blandness of today's web.
The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet. In addition, Wiby helps vintage computers to continue browsing the web, as page results are more suitable for their performance."
EDIT: Apparently Wiby also has !g and !b for Google and Bing redirections.
- dTal 8y agoThis is amazing!
- doorbellguy 8y agoI wish it worked as intended. Here's a sample query I put: https://wiby.me/?q=bag+of+word+model+matlab https://wiby.me/?q=bag+of+word+model+matlab See the results and decide.
- marttt 8y agoAs I understand the engine solely consists of user submitted sites. I wonder how many pages they currently have in their database.
- PostOnce 8y agoWow. Link of the day right here. Thanks. My test search on all of these engines is "atari", so all I get here is atari fan pages, and blogs about retrocomputing and restoring old hardware and stuff, no atari.com, no wikipedia, no steam page for atari collection sales.