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Oh, the old Google Custom Search Engine is still around, rebranded. Think it was called also Google Co-Op once. I used it for some hacks i.e.: a people search
by franze 6y ago
Oh, the old Google Custom Search Engine is still around, rebranded. Think it was called also Google Co-Op once.
I used it for some hacks i.e.: a people search engine once. And some SEO indexing checks before Google Search Console existed. Became pretty useless as the index was then seperated from the real Google Index.
Looking at it there is a way to upload XML files. Mhmmmmm... prop. good starting point for the next Google Bug Bounty Hunt.
- franze 6y agoI.e. my old "Google Digg” Search Engine. Called ”Gigg” https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=001532657764357279270:7uvopk6dehq https://cse.google.com/cse?cx=001532657764357279270:7uvopk6d...
- seg_lol 6y agoTiL that Digg still exists, https://digg.com/video/nickelbot-turns-nickelback-lyrics-into-new-song https://digg.com/video/nickelbot-turns-nickelback-lyrics-int...
- paxys 6y agoI remember when they used to sell a physical search box that you could plug into your server.
- codazoda 6y agoI had the pleasure of working with two of these. They did not give you the same quality of results that Google's website did. Utter garbage in a blue rack mounted case.
- jfim 6y agoOne thing I've heard from multiple googlers is that their internal wiki search is crap exactly because there's limited hyperlinking to give a good ranking for pages. Google's algorithm basically crunches a lot of human provided data (inbound links, clicks, dwell, etc.) into an algorithmic score, but with limited data it's not much better than tf-idf. That's probably the same thing that you've encountered with the search appliance.
- no_wizard 6y agoWhat is tf-idf, if you don’t mind me asking
- 8note 6y agoIt's a search scoring algorithm, combining how frequently the search term is used in a document with how frequently it appears in other documents. A word that shows up in the document and no others means it gets a very high score, vs "and" shows up in every document and thus doesn't score well for any
- dwhit 6y agohttps://lmgtfy.app/?q=tf+idf https://lmgtfy.app/?q=tf+idf
- nullsense 6y agoTerm Frequency/Inverse Document Frequency. It's what Apache Lucene does which is what ElasticSearch uses under the hood.
- throwaways885 6y agoPretty much. Internal search at Google actually used these appliances for a long time. Fortunately it's still been evolved and was externalised as a Google Cloud product a few years back.
- tyrust 6y agoI think you might have to change your "is" to a "was". wiki isn't really used anymore and the internal search is really really good.
- deanCommie 6y agoYou guys don't use a wiki anymore? What replaced it? Seems some form of wiki always has value inside a company?
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- mtmail 6y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Search_Appliance 2002-2019
- omgwtfbyobbq 6y agoThe loss of merch was the writing on the wall. ;) The appliance used to come with a T-shirt, but no longer includes one.
- gogopuppygogo 6y agoI remember when Apple sold me a developer license that came with a T shirt each year...
- dhosek 6y agoI was on a team that set one of those up for the Fox Filmed Entertainment intranet. It was a mess to set up, but it did look cool.
- vram22 6y agoThat was probably the Google Search Appliance.
- fergie 6y agoI used to sell those. They were actually quite good for their time, especially when they first came out, but they were really expensive. Its weird that Google has been so half-hearted about «enterprise search» since they stopped selling GSAs. You would think that they would be itching to know what lies behind your firewall.
- caro_douglos 6y agoRemember hosted urchin?
- ipsum2 6y agoIt looks like its still CSE, based off of the URL and the outdated design language before material (<2014? https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/cse/create/new https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/cse/create/new)
- shaneapen 6y agoExactly! Is there any new interesting features at the least? Nothing stands out to me except the stats.
- bluewavescrash 6y agoLOL I thought I was going crazy.
- wbarber 6y agoGoogled for confirmation that the Google CSE index is different from "the real Google Index" and haven't been able to confirm that. I've tinkered with Google CSE a lot and it does have its uses. The knowledge map options are fun to tinker with even if a bit of a black box. As for the xml - when you download the xml that's intended to be your starting point for an engine, it doesn't include parts of the definition of the CSE like sites you've listed to exclude. So that functionality seems to be a little broken, but I've confirmed you can add and remove elements of the knowledge graph at least via the xml file.