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MillionShort - A long tail search engine that lets you remove up to the top 1 million most popular websites from results - https://millionshort.com https://mill

MillionShort - A long tail search engine that lets you remove up to the top 1 million most popular websites from results - https://millionshort.com https://millionshort.com I posted Million Short 14 years ago to HN and the search engine has been largely the same since then. Now working on a pretty major overhaul: Launching our own decent sized independent index along with some (I think) cool & useful features. The search requires a paid account currently although I plan to post a Show HN soon that won't require any account or payment.

kukkeliskuu 14d ago
One idea I had for getting to the tail: filter out sites that appear to use SSO.
- m-i-l 14d ago
  I presume you mean SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) rather than SSO (Single Sign On). Six years ago I launched a boutique search engine which downranks pages which contain adverts on them (the theory being that this would remove the incentive for creating spam) and of course contains no adverts itself (to avoid what Brin & Page described as being "inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers"). Since then some other search engines have used this approach, or even gone further such as using the uBlock origin score in ranking.
  - kukkeliskuu 14d ago
    Yes, SEO, wrote the comment in rush, sorry. I am running a very popular dance calendar site in Finland that contains very relevant information, in very condensed format, but has some ads that are highly relevant for readers. I see why you might want to avoid ad based sites, but I think there may be some relevant sites that you will miss. The site https://tanssi.io https://tanssi.io
    - m-i-l 14d ago
      Pages with adverts are downranked (i.e. likely to appear lower in the results) rather than hidden, so if there are enough other positive signals they could still appear higher in the results.
    - taxonomyman 14d ago
      Seeing as how the search is already built around filtering against SEO, I actually read your comment as SSO (single sign on) - could be a good proxy/filter for "Enterprise" or B2B sites. I'll plan to add an SSO filter.

kukkeliskuu 14d ago

One idea I had for getting to the tail: filter out sites that appear to use SSO.

m-i-l 14d ago
I presume you mean SEO (Search Engine Optimisation) rather than SSO (Single Sign On). Six years ago I launched a boutique search engine which downranks pages which contain adverts on them (the theory being that this would remove the incentive for creating spam) and of course contains no adverts itself (to avoid what Brin & Page described as being "inherently biased towards the advertisers and away from the needs of consumers"). Since then some other search engines have used this approach, or even gone further such as using the uBlock origin score in ranking.
- kukkeliskuu 14d ago
  Yes, SEO, wrote the comment in rush, sorry. I am running a very popular dance calendar site in Finland that contains very relevant information, in very condensed format, but has some ads that are highly relevant for readers. I see why you might want to avoid ad based sites, but I think there may be some relevant sites that you will miss. The site https://tanssi.io https://tanssi.io
  - m-i-l 14d ago
    Pages with adverts are downranked (i.e. likely to appear lower in the results) rather than hidden, so if there are enough other positive signals they could still appear higher in the results.
  - taxonomyman 14d ago
    Seeing as how the search is already built around filtering against SEO, I actually read your comment as SSO (single sign on) - could be a good proxy/filter for "Enterprise" or B2B sites. I'll plan to add an SSO filter.