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In a nutshell, what is the fundamental difference with this search engine compared to others?

by waynecochran 5y ago

stazz1 5y ago
>About Alexandria Alexandria.org is a non-profit, ad free search engine. Our goal is to provide the best available information without compromise. The index is built on data from Common Crawl and the engine is written in C++. The source code is available here. We are still at an early stage of development and running the search engine on a shoestring budget. Please contact us at -email- if you want to get involved, want to support this initiative or have any questions.
- waynecochran 5y ago
  But what is different in terms of its indexing algorithm? The original secret sauce for google was the pagerank algorithm which was mathematically genius. Are you using a similar algorithm.
  - josefcullhed 5y ago
    Founder here. We are using harmonic centrality instead of pagerank. But of course much more work needs to be done to make the search engine usable.
    - Seirdy 5y ago
      I'm curious as to which reasons/tradeoffs were involved in the decision to use harmonic centrality, if you wouldn't mind sharing.
Minor49er 5y ago
Their About page has you covered: > Alexandria.org is a non-profit, ad free search engine. Our goal is to provide the best available information without compromise. > The index is built on data from Common Crawl and the engine is written in C++. The source code is available (at https://github.com/alexandria-org# https://github.com/alexandria-org#). Edit: formatting
- greenyoda 5y ago
  More about Common Crawl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crawl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crawl > Common Crawl is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that crawls the web and freely provides its archives and datasets to the public. Common Crawl's web archive consists of petabytes of data collected since 2011. It completes crawls generally every month. ...

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In a nutshell, what is the fundamental difference with this search engine compared to others?

by waynecochran 5y ago

In a nutshell, what is the fundamental difference with this search engine compared to others?

stazz1 5y ago
>About Alexandria Alexandria.org is a non-profit, ad free search engine. Our goal is to provide the best available information without compromise. The index is built on data from Common Crawl and the engine is written in C++. The source code is available here. We are still at an early stage of development and running the search engine on a shoestring budget. Please contact us at -email- if you want to get involved, want to support this initiative or have any questions.
- waynecochran 5y ago
  But what is different in terms of its indexing algorithm? The original secret sauce for google was the pagerank algorithm which was mathematically genius. Are you using a similar algorithm.
  - josefcullhed 5y ago
    Founder here. We are using harmonic centrality instead of pagerank. But of course much more work needs to be done to make the search engine usable.
    - Seirdy 5y ago
      I'm curious as to which reasons/tradeoffs were involved in the decision to use harmonic centrality, if you wouldn't mind sharing.
Minor49er 5y ago
Their About page has you covered: > Alexandria.org is a non-profit, ad free search engine. Our goal is to provide the best available information without compromise. > The index is built on data from Common Crawl and the engine is written in C++. The source code is available (at https://github.com/alexandria-org# https://github.com/alexandria-org#). Edit: formatting
- greenyoda 5y ago
  More about Common Crawl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crawl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crawl > Common Crawl is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that crawls the web and freely provides its archives and datasets to the public. Common Crawl's web archive consists of petabytes of data collected since 2011. It completes crawls generally every month. ...