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Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine
- carldaddy 6y agoWiby.org is my homepage. I occasionally click "surprise me..." to view 90s style websites. I find them more interesting than scrolling though modern stuff.
- faangbored 6y agoI got a chuckle of the 'wibyplex' photo in the about page.
- rafaelturk 6y agoI'm impressed with the quality of the results.
- MulliMulli 6y agoIs it powered by Bing?
- throwaway1777 6y agoPartially yes. https://wiby.org/about/pp.org.html https://wiby.org/about/pp.org.html
- vallas 6y agoSeems like there is an increasing need for alternative search engines
- yboris 6y agoTested my app: https://videohubapp.com/ https://videohubapp.com/ Searched for "Video Hub App" and it didn't find my website :(
- jedimastert 6y agoSearch results are powered by Bing and its own index, so if you're not showing up you can just submit yourself https://wiby.org/submit/ https://wiby.org/submit/
- blitmap 6y agoI used to know of a search engine that supported a bunch of added functionality for searching some selected popular sites. Like "wp whatever" would search just Wikipedia. It supported many man little command shortcuts. It was popular among dwm/i3 users, and I have forgotten it :( I was a fan of MacOS performing searches with Command + Spacebar, so on Linux I scripted a similar popup-prompt that would open Firefox and feed my input to this search engine.
- TomMarius 6y agoSounds like DuckDuckGo?
- slater 6y agoCuil? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil
- Miner49er 6y agoNot exactly a search engine, but maybe you mean surfraw? https://gitlab.com/surfraw/Surfraw https://gitlab.com/surfraw/Surfraw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfraw https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfraw
- agustif 6y agoalfred?
- Terretta 6y ago”Bangs are shortcuts that quickly take you to search results on other sites. For example, when you know you want to search on another site like Wikipedia or Amazon, our bangs get you there fastest. A search for !w filter bubble will take you directly to Wikipedia... [DDG offers] 13,505 bangs and counting...” https://duckduckgo.com/bang https://duckduckgo.com/bang
- pointhi 6y agoLooks like a very early version of searx, which is an open source privacy-respecting metasearch engine: https://searx.me/ https://searx.me/
- dragonquest 6y agoI really like the wiby.me version of this. It displays results only from early web style pages; a great throwback to an era where not everything was "corporate".
- sanqui 6y agoAs I've used the website before, I was surprised to see a larger number of search results than usual. Turns out https://wiby.org/ https://wiby.org/ is distinct from the older version, https://wiby.me/ https://wiby.me/, which only indexes few sites.
- holler 6y agowow, I really like this! I'm really fed up with what google has turned into and miss when search was just a simple list of blue links w/o the unnecessary noise. Will start using this, thanks!
- barbarbar 6y agoI get 502 bad gateway.
- mallow 6y agoOMG! I can actually search for something and not end up in some conglomerate corporate non informational results. This is a dream! How are you able to filter out all the garbage.
- ehonda 6y agoIt is mixing Wiby's index with pages from Bings index. Wiby has criteria for the types of pages that can be part of its index, and those pages must be submitted directly by users.