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Another option to consider (which marginalia-search.com uses) is Anubis (anubis.techaro.lol). The operator of Marginalia told me that he was getting lots of peo
by n1xis10t 10mo ago
Another option to consider (which marginalia-search.com uses) is Anubis (anubis.techaro.lol). The operator of Marginalia told me that he was getting lots of people spamming the same queries over and over, which he thought might be them trying to influence suggested searches. He put Anubis in place and the query volume dropped to much more reasonable levels. It works by running some sort of complex calculation in javascript, so it won’t get rid of all bots, but it should slow them all down.
The downside is that their silly anime girl mascot is displayed whenever the challenge is running, which I think some people might find off-putting.
Edit: Are you going to announce the search engine on hacker news?
2nd edit: If you are making a search engine, this is probably a good article to read: https://archive.org/details/search-timeline https://archive.org/details/search-timeline It talks about various search engines that have disappeared mysteriously over the years.
- xena 10mo agoThere is an unbranded version: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper
- n1xis10t 10mo agoI noticed that, but that page makes it sound like it can only be unbranded if you pay for the commercial version. It looks like Anubis is open source though, so I suppose you might be able to download the source and switch out images for your own, is that correct? Also, since you are who you are, can I ask how you came across this post? Did you notice it because of the content of the original post or because I mentioned Anubis?
- xena 10mo ago> I noticed that, but that page makes it sound like it can only be unbranded if you pay for the commercial version. It looks like Anubis is open source though, so I suppose you might be able to download the source and switch out images for your own, is that correct? You can do that, but I can prioritize support of the open source project based on if people play nice. I don't mean to be rude, but I can't pay rent with GitHub stars. > Also, since you are who you are, can I ask how you came across this post? Did you notice it because of the content of the original post or because I mentioned Anubis? I have a cronjob monitoring new Hacker News posts for mentions of Anubis.
- n1xis10t 10mo agoA cronjob, that’s cool. A little rudeness is fine, you could probably say I’ve been a little rude. Thank for making a cool product!
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