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AndiSearch – The best Google Replacement I've Tried

SubiculumCode 5y ago
I've tried AndiSearch over the last several days since seeing it mentioned in an HN discussion. I've tried this search engine with a great variety of search terms, technical, bland, obscure, common and it performs better than DDG and as well or better than Google. As a plus bonus, there is an option to return search results in HN formatting, which I find incredibly easy to parse. Note: This was an unsolicited post. I am just really impressed with this engine.
- verdverm 5y ago
  Chat bot mode is off-putting, where is this result list option? Is is not apparent looking through the menu
  - SubiculumCode 5y ago
    Full results are in the right. In Change View option at top of right panel, you can select different outputs.
    - verdverm 5y ago
      There does not appear to be any option on mobile for this
mzeeshan7929 5y ago
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agnos 5y ago
I've been impressed with AndiSearch so far. I use a mix of Google and DDG and this seems to do a great job at search relevancy. I'm still hesitant on a few things before making this my default search engine but I'm really excited to see where AndiSearch goes. - How does it handle privacy concerns? Personal information collection, tracker-blocking, etc. - Technical search. Google isn't perfect at this either, but sometimes I want to search for a specific piece of code/error message and resort to appending "site:stackoverflow.com" to Google. But this limits my search results to SO. It seems like the search input for this kind of thing is pretty different than regular, "conversational" search and there's a need for a tech-specific search engine that caters towards code searching/technical string parsing. - Not a huge fan of the "conversational" UI. I see "Assistant Mode" in the menu but I can't seem to disable it. Maybe I'm missing something. I do like the simplicity of having just a free-form search bar. There's a higher bar of entry for use if I have to learn how to interact with the search bot.
- SubiculumCode 5y ago
  Its still in alpha I hear. I don't find the assistant mode that useful either, but perhaps this is a way to develop both an assistant and search engine simultaneously? https://andisearch.com/commands/ https://andisearch.com/commands/ gives an overview of some commands. Looks like you can search a site like this: 'search stackoverflow for python array indexing' or `search reddit for pathfinder 2e hex crawl` or ~e site:cnn.com +"mars rover" for exact

I've tried AndiSearch over the last several days since seeing it mentioned in an HN discussion. I've tried this search engine with a great variety of search terms, technical, bland, obscure, common and it performs better than DDG and as well or better than Google. As a plus bonus, there is an option to return search results in HN formatting, which I find incredibly easy to parse. Note: This was an unsolicited post. I am just really impressed with this engine.

verdverm 5y ago
Chat bot mode is off-putting, where is this result list option? Is is not apparent looking through the menu
- SubiculumCode 5y ago
  Full results are in the right. In Change View option at top of right panel, you can select different outputs.
  - verdverm 5y ago
    There does not appear to be any option on mobile for this

mzeeshan7929 5y ago

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agnos 5y ago

I've been impressed with AndiSearch so far. I use a mix of Google and DDG and this seems to do a great job at search relevancy. I'm still hesitant on a few things before making this my default search engine but I'm really excited to see where AndiSearch goes. - How does it handle privacy concerns? Personal information collection, tracker-blocking, etc. - Technical search. Google isn't perfect at this either, but sometimes I want to search for a specific piece of code/error message and resort to appending "site:stackoverflow.com" to Google. But this limits my search results to SO. It seems like the search input for this kind of thing is pretty different than regular, "conversational" search and there's a need for a tech-specific search engine that caters towards code searching/technical string parsing. - Not a huge fan of the "conversational" UI. I see "Assistant Mode" in the menu but I can't seem to disable it. Maybe I'm missing something. I do like the simplicity of having just a free-form search bar. There's a higher bar of entry for use if I have to learn how to interact with the search bot.

SubiculumCode 5y ago
Its still in alpha I hear. I don't find the assistant mode that useful either, but perhaps this is a way to develop both an assistant and search engine simultaneously? https://andisearch.com/commands/ https://andisearch.com/commands/ gives an overview of some commands. Looks like you can search a site like this: 'search stackoverflow for python array indexing' or `search reddit for pathfinder 2e hex crawl` or ~e site:cnn.com +"mars rover" for exact