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Every time I stumble across a new search engine, I add it to my search engine comparison tool: https://www.gnod.com/search/ https://www.gnod.com/search/ Will
by mg 5y ago
Every time I stumble across a new search engine, I add it to my search engine comparison tool:
https://www.gnod.com/search/ https://www.gnod.com/search/
Will add SearX now. It seems to provide reasonably good results.
Update: It's on (under 'More Engines').
- fsflover 5y agoYou should also add YaCy: https://yacy.net https://yacy.net.
- mg 5y agoIt seems to be not web based? When I click on "Try out the YaCy Demo Peer", I get "502 Bad Gateway".
- fsflover 5y agoIt's self-hosted and peer-to-peer. You could search for other public-facing instances, e.g., http://sokrates.homeunix.net:6060 http://sokrates.homeunix.net:6060. Ideally, you could run your own instance to show the world how it works.
- wenbin 5y agoYou should add the podcast search engine https://www.listennotes.com/ https://www.listennotes.com/
- mg 5y agoThanks, added. Holy Moly, are there really over 100 million podcast episodes out there?
- wenbin 5y agoYes. some numbers: https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/ https://www.listennotes.com/podcast-stats/ Listen Notes was started in early 2017 as a side project, when there were ~23 million episodes. I remembered seeing the number of web pages indexed by Google in early 1998 was ~25 million, then I thought that "ok, 23 million episodes might justify the existence of a podcast search engine" :)
- autoexec 5y agoToo bad they force you to log in to view a result or do anything but search. They also share/sell your data to 3rd parties including Google
- imglorp 5y agoThis is a nice compilation. It would be very interesting if it examined and compared results.
- m-i-l 5y agoYes, looks good, although I thought it was going to be a federated search, i.e. you enter your search term and it performs that search on all the sites selected. The simpler way of implementing a federated search would be to show separate results boxes from each site, although that wouldn't scale well to a large number of sites, and it can get quite complicated to try to combine the results.
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- 51stpage 5y agoThere is also Marginalia https://search.marginalia.nu/ https://search.marginalia.nu/ which I don't see on your list.
- marginalia_nu 5y agoIt's currently undergoing its monthly maintenance just FYI. It's up and technically working, but with a drastically reduced index size.
- sysadm1n 5y agoTried Marginalia. So many plaintext http links which I avoid like the plague. That's my only gripe with it. Other than that, it's an awesome tool.
- freediver 5y ago> So many plaintext http links which I avoid like the plague. Why? What you described appears to be the safest place on the web.
- sysadm1n 5y agoI only browse HTTPS sites. I have the `HTTPS Everywhere` addon installed with the `EASE` / Encrypt All Sites Eligible turned on so I don't accidentally browse an unencrypted website. Something like 85%/90% of the web is encrypted now, and there's no excuse to be using outdated plaintext http anymore. It's a privacy and security risk. There are only few instances where I had to view a http site (I'm a freelancer and my client's webpage was still unencrypted, so I had to see it, so a rare exception to the rule).
- marginalia_nu 5y agoIt's funny because I got like 70% HTTP in my index, so the whole "90% of the web is encrypted" seems to depend on which sample you are looking at. Google doesn't index HTTP at all, so that's not a good place to go looking for what's the most popular. That's in fact half the reason why I built this search engine in the first place, because they demand things of websites that some websites simply can't or wont comply with. A lot of servers still use HTTP, for various reasons. There are also some clients that can't use HTTPS.
- jwithington 5y agowhere's you.com lol
- mg 5y agoThanks, added.
- ColinHayhurst 5y agoNice work. If you have a twitter handle you might request to get added to these lists; either way they might be useful for you: https://twitter.com/SearchEngineMap/lists https://twitter.com/SearchEngineMap/lists
- Jaruzel 5y agoI have this REALLY old text file of search engine URLs: http://www.jaruzel.com/textfiles/Old%20Web%20Info/Internet%20Search%20Engines%20v2.61.txt http://www.jaruzel.com/textfiles/Old%20Web%20Info/Internet%2... Google basically killed almost off of them off :( It would be great to see some proper competition in the search space, especially around specialist search engines.
- sixothree 5y agoI would love a search engine targeted towards developers. Searching for symbols seem to be a problem with google, not to mention all of the utterly crappy results they serve up.
- Minor49er 5y agoYou should add Fireball. It's excellent https://fireball.de/ https://fireball.de/
- nix23 5y agoA yacy instance would be good too ;) https://yacy.net/ https://yacy.net/
- danskeren 5y agoAsk.Moe nona.de
- 1_player 5y agoIs anything supposed to happen when I enter something and press Enter? Nothing happens for me, FF on Windows, uBlock.
- reayn 5y agoYou are supposed to type something into the search field then click the engine you want to use, it will pass on whatever you entered. I agree that the creator could make that a little more clear somewhere on the page.