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Still waiting for a search engine that only searches Wikipedia, Reddit, Stack Overflow, Flickr, and a handful of other sites.
by pkamb 4y ago
Still waiting for a search engine that only searches Wikipedia, Reddit, Stack Overflow, Flickr, and a handful of other sites.
- FrontAid 4y agoMore or less what CrowdView does. - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34507965 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34507965 - https://crowdview.ai/ https://crowdview.ai/
- tcrenshaw 4y agoI can vouch for crowdview as well. Discovered it a few weeks ago and it does a great job at cutting through the typical search bullshit when you want human responses
- Terretta 4y agoSet up a custom Lens in Kagi. Here's the form to do exactly that: Create a Lens Name of the lens Describe what the lens does, up to 300 characters. (optional) The style of how results will be rendered Lock your search results to a specific region Choose Region Include only these sites in results (up to 10, comma-separated) Exclude these sites in results (up to 10, comma-separated) Include pages containing these keywords (up to 5, comma-separated) Use keywords in autosuggestions automatically Automatically use your supplied 'Included Keywords' in autosuggest when the lens is enabled. Exclude pages containing these keywords (up to 5, comma-separated) File type Include results before this date Include results after this date Yesterday Show results from Yesterday to Today (UTC) When checked, before and after times will do nothing.
- silverwasthere 4y agoThat sounds incredibly useful!
- marginalia_nu 4y agoData is available for at least the first three of those (reddit isn't "officially" available but there are 3rd party dumps). Why not load it into OpenSearch or some such?
- ajdude 4y agoIt's a bit wordy, but adding `(site:flickr.com OR site:wikipedia.org OR site:reddit.com)` to the end of your query will still restricted to those three sites.
- ricardo81 4y agoMojeek Focus does this, up to 25 sites (optionally incl subdomains) and 25 exclusions. No signin/signup required. https://blog.mojeek.com/2022/08/mojeek-focus-search-the-web-you-want.html https://blog.mojeek.com/2022/08/mojeek-focus-search-the-web-... As most of the search alternatives rely on G/Bing in one form or another, there's not many in the position to offer this kind of customisation using an independent index. Disclaimer, I am an employee at Mojeek.
- hexagonwin 4y agoI believe that you may do this by only enabling those sites you mentioned as a Search Engine in SearX(NG), not sure of SOf or Flickr though..