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Well, I just popped an inocuous search term ("dinosaurs") in there and the very first result was a page with the title: "Evidence That Humans And Dinosaurs Coe

Well, I just popped an inocuous search term ("dinosaurs") in there and the very first result was a page with the title: "Evidence That Humans And Dinosaurs Coexisted" So that actually kind of sucks.

gerikson 4y ago
I thought it might be a lovingly handcrafted artisinal static site at least, but it's very very 90s web design.
- masukomi 4y ago
  don't see how "lovingly handcrafted artisinal" and "90s web design" are incompatible. ;) the thing about artisans, is that they create according to their specific taste, which may or may not intersect with subjective modern tastes. :)
- worldofmatthew 4y ago
  A lot of new wave personal websites are using the 1990s as inspiration, due to the 1990s having far more web design versatility than the utter boring designs that every copies nowadays.
throwaway5371 4y ago
this is absolutely amazing i love it
generalizations 4y ago
But on the same page of results you also get things like this: http://mlwi.magix.net/synchronicity.htm http://mlwi.magix.net/synchronicity.htm I don't see what sucks - we're talking about the WWW here, and we should expect the full spectrum of thoughts and opinions. Unless you're hoping that each and every boutique search engine will filter the results according to your preference?
- cush 4y ago
  When ordering results, one would expect the top results to contain information mostly pertaining to the search term. "Dinosaurs" and "my old book says the world is only a few thousand years old, therefore I'm going to try to convince you that carbon dating is invalid by hand-waving my way to the conclusion that Dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time" is a bit of a stretch. I'd expect maybe "Triceratops" as a result near the top, for example.
  - agileAlligator 4y ago
    This isn't a search engine that is optimized for quality or authenticity of information contained on the sites. It's simply a tool for exploring an index of websites that follow the guidelines set by the author.
    - cush 4y ago
      I'm not talking about quality or authenticity. Literally just the topic.
      - agileAlligator 4y ago
        Hey, you asked for dinosaurs and it gave you dinosaurs. A simple keyword search possibly, with pages that have more 'dinosaur's in them ranking higher
  - generalizations 4y ago
    Well, it's a webpage exclusively devoted to dinosaurs. Dunno what else to say.
  - xcdzvyn 4y ago
    The engine is not trying to push a political agenda. It found a result with the word dinosaur in the title. Calm down.
    - cush 4y ago
nerdponx 4y ago
I think the content not sucking is orthogonal to the design of the page not sucking.
lasfter 4y ago
I took this as a cue and searched some loaded terms. "vaccines" and "covid 19" had decent results, mostly people's blogs and some sites trying to prevent misinformation. "abortions" mostly gave statistics, a blog by a 14-year old student in China, and an extensive collection of writings in support of Ayn Rand and against Noam Chomsky. "trump" gives the most perplexing results, which I don't really know how to describe. Interestingly, the Rand/Chomsky page shows up here too. I suppose it depends on your definition of suckless, but all the sites that were returned were lightweight, and content-first. As for the content... interesting might be the word I'd use. And it definitely doesn't show up in mainstream engines.
nmilo 4y ago
Why does it kind of suck? Let people believe what they want to believe. It's not like it makes any difference to your life or theirs.

Well, I just popped an inocuous search term ("dinosaurs") in there and the very first result was a page with the title: "Evidence That Humans And Dinosaurs Coexisted" So that actually kind of sucks.

gerikson 4y ago

I thought it might be a lovingly handcrafted artisinal static site at least, but it's very very 90s web design.

masukomi 4y ago
don't see how "lovingly handcrafted artisinal" and "90s web design" are incompatible. ;) the thing about artisans, is that they create according to their specific taste, which may or may not intersect with subjective modern tastes. :)
worldofmatthew 4y ago
A lot of new wave personal websites are using the 1990s as inspiration, due to the 1990s having far more web design versatility than the utter boring designs that every copies nowadays.

throwaway5371 4y ago

this is absolutely amazing i love it

generalizations 4y ago

But on the same page of results you also get things like this: http://mlwi.magix.net/synchronicity.htm http://mlwi.magix.net/synchronicity.htm I don't see what sucks - we're talking about the WWW here, and we should expect the full spectrum of thoughts and opinions. Unless you're hoping that each and every boutique search engine will filter the results according to your preference?

cush 4y ago
When ordering results, one would expect the top results to contain information mostly pertaining to the search term. "Dinosaurs" and "my old book says the world is only a few thousand years old, therefore I'm going to try to convince you that carbon dating is invalid by hand-waving my way to the conclusion that Dinosaurs and humans existed at the same time" is a bit of a stretch. I'd expect maybe "Triceratops" as a result near the top, for example.
- agileAlligator 4y ago
  This isn't a search engine that is optimized for quality or authenticity of information contained on the sites. It's simply a tool for exploring an index of websites that follow the guidelines set by the author.
  - cush 4y ago
    I'm not talking about quality or authenticity. Literally just the topic.
    - agileAlligator 4y ago
      Hey, you asked for dinosaurs and it gave you dinosaurs. A simple keyword search possibly, with pages that have more 'dinosaur's in them ranking higher
- generalizations 4y ago
  Well, it's a webpage exclusively devoted to dinosaurs. Dunno what else to say.
- xcdzvyn 4y ago
  The engine is not trying to push a political agenda. It found a result with the word dinosaur in the title. Calm down.
  - cush 4y ago

nerdponx 4y ago

I think the content not sucking is orthogonal to the design of the page not sucking.

lasfter 4y ago

I took this as a cue and searched some loaded terms. "vaccines" and "covid 19" had decent results, mostly people's blogs and some sites trying to prevent misinformation. "abortions" mostly gave statistics, a blog by a 14-year old student in China, and an extensive collection of writings in support of Ayn Rand and against Noam Chomsky. "trump" gives the most perplexing results, which I don't really know how to describe. Interestingly, the Rand/Chomsky page shows up here too. I suppose it depends on your definition of suckless, but all the sites that were returned were lightweight, and content-first. As for the content... interesting might be the word I'd use. And it definitely doesn't show up in mainstream engines.

nmilo 4y ago

Why does it kind of suck? Let people believe what they want to believe. It's not like it makes any difference to your life or theirs.