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I think there is a market here. "Dumb" search engines, that search exactly the words you type, maybe with advanced features like regex, metadata search, etc...
by GuB-42 5y ago
I think there is a market here. "Dumb" search engines, that search exactly the words you type, maybe with advanced features like regex, metadata search, etc... It won't replace Google's guesswork, but sometimes, I just want to grep the internet.
All non-Google engines are all about privacy, which is nice, and almost a requirement if you want to compete with Google, but I'd like to see features that actually improve search too. DDG gets a honorable mention with its bangs and applets.
- lubesGordi 5y agoI think so too. It'd really be nice to get a search capability that doesn't take my past searching into account. I want an unbiased search, and give me good tools to filter.
- BitwiseFool 5y agoI'd like to go a step further and hope for "dumb" search engines that are tailored towards indexing specific subsets of the internet as a whole. As an example, imagine a search engine that is specifically tailored towards programming questions. Or one that specifically omits some of the more annoying SEO optimized results, like Livestrong and USA Today.
- zomglings 5y agoMy current product started off as precisely that kind of search engine. User adoption is a huge problem - almost no users made it their default search engine because even programmers need to do non-programming searches and it's too easy to go into your browser, hit ALT+d, bang out your search query, and hit enter. And because google and ddg do a good job on most programming related searches, they get to be the default search engines.
- WarOnPrivacy 5y ago> DDG gets a honorable mention with its bangs and applets. Yeah but it ignores most other operands. It's fairly frustrating to be unable to mandate a search term.
- quijoteuniv 5y ago«I just want to grep the internet” +1