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One innovative "solution" is millionshort: http://millionshort.com/ http://millionshort.com/ Basically the idea is that you take sites that perform too well o
by unimpressive 14y ago
One innovative "solution" is millionshort:
http://millionshort.com/ http://millionshort.com/
Basically the idea is that you take sites that perform too well on search metrics and remove them. Of course, that only works as long as a majority uses services like google.
- mkr-hn 14y agoI remember seeing this on HN a while back. It looks much more polished now.
- unimpressive 14y agoI couldn't find it by searching, but I remember it being demoed on HN by the author.
- mkr-hn 14y agohttp://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=millionshort.com&start=0 http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/submissions&q=mil... HN's search won't return results with a domain if you don't put the TLD in. Not sure why.
- derleth 14y ago> Basically the idea is that you take sites that perform too well on search metrics and remove them. Some of the results remind me of the Web from the late 1990s: Definitely more than just the original group of geeks writing pages, but the mega-popular sites (Wikipedia, about.com, etc.) aren't there, like they weren't there back 15 or so years ago. It's almost homey again.
- hkon 14y agoCool idea. I tried it just now, I searched "how to make rocket", thought I'd get some cool old style pages on people launching rockets in their spare time. I did. However the top result when I removed top 10k sites was the second result when I did it without removing anything. That was kind of disappointing.
- d23 14y agoYeah, I just tried a sample search and it returned mostly the same results, no matter how many sites I removed. They were just in a different order.
- Joe_Knapp 14y agoThe other nice thing about million short is that the user is in control. The user can choose which websites to exclude like Wikipedia, Ehow and others. The listings are long, not seven organic listings. this type of philosophy, where the user is in control, Will give them a big competitive advantage. The filtering system is very good, and I expected to get better.
- taxonomyman 14y agoGlad you like it. We'll be realeasing some interesting features in the coming days and weeks.