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Show HN: Searchall – search all major indexes on one page (with iframes)

3 points by lhmiles 5y ago

lhmiles 5y ago
Try out some queries from your browser history and see if anything beats google. Other engines are more likely to beat google for queries that google has failed at. Majority of engines were found at below link. Surprisingly many engines use the same indices, for example duckduckgo is mostly just privacy-protected bing. Big thanks to Rohan Kumar. https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes.html https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe... A proxy is needed to bypass iframe restrictions for most websites. I used this x-frame-bypass client js code [https://github.com/niutech/x-frame-bypass https://github.com/niutech/x-frame-bypass] which (previously?) used proxy.megatunger.com . That free proxy could be recording your queries, who knows, so use caution. If (when actually) that proxy goes down I think I'll set up something like CORSflare to have a more reliable and trustworthy alternative. [https://github.com/Darkseal/CORSflare https://github.com/Darkseal/CORSflare] I hacked this together over about one workday in total so it's likely to have significant issues. You can comment them here or (preferably) file an issue on the repo: [https://github.com/qpwo/searchall/ https://github.com/qpwo/searchall/] There's also a demo video on the repo if the site goes down but you wanted to see how it looks. Feel free to file feature requests on the repo as well. If you'd rather copy it and make your own version then that's fine too. I'll try to reply to all comments here.
- phgn 5y ago
  Hey thank you for linking niutech/x-frame-bypass and the web proxy, by chance I was looking for this exact thing.
  - lhmiles 5y ago
    Np let me know if you set up your own proxy how much work it is
phgn 5y ago
Interesting idea! It's somewhat hard to come up with good search queries on the spot, but I will try this out the next time I'm dissatisfied with Google Search (which happens often).
- lhmiles 5y ago
  I added it to chrome with keyword 'sa' so it's easy to swap around. I do that with all the custom searches.

3 points by lhmiles 5y ago

Try out some queries from your browser history and see if anything beats google. Other engines are more likely to beat google for queries that google has failed at. Majority of engines were found at below link. Surprisingly many engines use the same indices, for example duckduckgo is mostly just privacy-protected bing. Big thanks to Rohan Kumar. https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexes.html https://seirdy.one/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-indexe... A proxy is needed to bypass iframe restrictions for most websites. I used this x-frame-bypass client js code [https://github.com/niutech/x-frame-bypass https://github.com/niutech/x-frame-bypass] which (previously?) used proxy.megatunger.com . That free proxy could be recording your queries, who knows, so use caution. If (when actually) that proxy goes down I think I'll set up something like CORSflare to have a more reliable and trustworthy alternative. [https://github.com/Darkseal/CORSflare https://github.com/Darkseal/CORSflare] I hacked this together over about one workday in total so it's likely to have significant issues. You can comment them here or (preferably) file an issue on the repo: [https://github.com/qpwo/searchall/ https://github.com/qpwo/searchall/] There's also a demo video on the repo if the site goes down but you wanted to see how it looks. Feel free to file feature requests on the repo as well. If you'd rather copy it and make your own version then that's fine too. I'll try to reply to all comments here.

phgn 5y ago
Hey thank you for linking niutech/x-frame-bypass and the web proxy, by chance I was looking for this exact thing.
- lhmiles 5y ago
  Np let me know if you set up your own proxy how much work it is

phgn 5y ago

Interesting idea! It's somewhat hard to come up with good search queries on the spot, but I will try this out the next time I'm dissatisfied with Google Search (which happens often).

lhmiles 5y ago
I added it to chrome with keyword 'sa' so it's easy to swap around. I do that with all the custom searches.