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I built a better Google. It was easy.

9 points by zendo 14y ago

kvprashant 14y ago
I facechaired. You know, when facepalm is not enough?
- neya 14y ago
  Maybe this? http://www.myfacewhen.net/uploads/714-epic-facepalm.jpg http://www.myfacewhen.net/uploads/714-epic-facepalm.jpg :D
bengotow 14y ago
Haha wow - sorry, but if you think you can create a "better Google" by limiting the scope of searches to specific sites that you've selected ahead of time, you're missing the point of the this entire decade.
joshlane4 14y ago
You misspelled Google in the third line of your article.
BruceIV 14y ago
Isn't the point of search engines to find sites you don't already know exist (or, more prosaically, have forgotten the URL for)?
dedsm 14y ago
is this like a joke or something?
quotemstr 14y ago
This post is everything wrong with valley culture distilled into a few ugly paragraphs, followed by an ugly site that redirects to Bing, which the paragraphs had just harangued.
archgoon 14y ago
They created a frontend to Bing, and a way to group site restrictions. A more honest title would be "I built a better frontend to Google (by which I mean Bing)".
GhotiFish 14y ago
Search programming: c libraries http://www.bing.com/search?q=c%20libraries%20%28%20+site:php.net%20OR%20+site:java.sun.com%20OR%20+site:python.org%20OR%20+site:ruby-lang.org%20%29 http://www.bing.com/search?q=c%20libraries%20%28%20+site:php... good job. edit: All things considered. I think this blog might be a joke.
mtgx 14y ago
Is this a joke?
lwf 14y ago
Pretty obviously a troll, their blog tagline is "Blog of the The Greatest Person to Have Ever Lived"
ferostar 14y ago
Although i don't personally think that this project (nor the way it was presented here) is worth much, we have to agree that we are now in a place where limiting search results is relevant and filtering content will be more and more important as years go by and the information continues to increase at this rate.
asadjb 14y ago
So a worse duckduckgo.com then?
dkhenry 14y ago
So he made something like Blekko, but he used bing as the backend instead of his own backend. How did this hit the front page ?
neya 14y ago
So, first I thought "Oh no, not another DuckduckGo!" Then the article's first line had Google misspelt as 'Gogle' and then there were a few paragraphs with too many biased assumptions and with more of marketing slogans revolved around the importance of 'you'..and so I thought it's a social network with a search engine integrated. But then, I thought "hey, isn't that what Google already does?" And then I clicked the link, it's just a semi-polished front-end, with serif and sans-serif fonts mixed, that just builds-up queries for ONE particular search engine (Bing). Atleast, if there was an option to choose between any of the top 3 Search engine's, I would have been slightly impressed. Honestly, this is a disappointment and the title is misleading. It solves a very little problem. Anyway, I don't want this to be a 'hate-only' comment, so, I'll share what I know with the community, so far: (Replace news.ycombinator.com with the site you want to search for) 1) If you want to search a specific site, then type in : site:news.ycombinator.com 2) If you want to exclude keywords, then type in: site:news.ycombinator.com -mongodb This will exclude all results containing 'mongodb' 3) If you are searching for a specific string within the results, then type: site:news.ycombinator.com riak This will explicitly highlight the word riak in your results and also include only results that matches this string. You could also search for a particular term in double quotes to be included with your result: site:news.ycombinator.com "paul graham" Hope this helps..
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islon 14y ago
"Take a look at NeatSeek, and prepare to be amazed." You are right: I'm amazed by the amount of self deception and wishful thinking in this article. You missed the point so hard you hit yourself.
epicjunction 14y ago
A suggestion - As it stands right now, your title and blog is link-baity as it belittles the work of engineers at Google. Re-title your submission contextual search because you're searching within a silo or context of websites. The problem you're trying to solve is along the lines of millionshort.com in that you are trying to lessen the impact of over-optimization of results. As for an explanation of the down-votes you're getting, I can only refer you to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4962544 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4962544
greenyoda 14y ago
This site takes the problem of the search filter bubble[1] and pushes it to the extreme. It might be useful for people who want to avoid, at any cost, political opinions that they disagree with. However, if you're trying to solve a hard problem that you don't know the answer to, is it reasonable to assume that you do happen to know what tiny subset of the web contains your unknown answer? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble
jrussbowman 14y ago
blekko allows you to do this with their feature to create your own slashtags. for unscatter.com I took the approach of using other sites apis but the caveat being I never intended it to compete with Google or bing or the like as it's results are based on recency rather than the relevancy. in one incarnation of unscatter.com I did something similar to what you did except I used boss. one thing you should consider is there is a limit on how many characters are in a get request and you will hit it fast embedding all those site: declarations. good luck.
joshguthrie 14y ago
Imma let you finish but Google had the best doodles of all time. Of all time!

9 points by zendo 14y ago

kvprashant 14y ago

I facechaired. You know, when facepalm is not enough?

neya 14y ago
Maybe this? http://www.myfacewhen.net/uploads/714-epic-facepalm.jpg http://www.myfacewhen.net/uploads/714-epic-facepalm.jpg :D

bengotow 14y ago

Haha wow - sorry, but if you think you can create a "better Google" by limiting the scope of searches to specific sites that you've selected ahead of time, you're missing the point of the this entire decade.

joshlane4 14y ago

You misspelled Google in the third line of your article.

BruceIV 14y ago

Isn't the point of search engines to find sites you don't already know exist (or, more prosaically, have forgotten the URL for)?

dedsm 14y ago

is this like a joke or something?

quotemstr 14y ago

This post is everything wrong with valley culture distilled into a few ugly paragraphs, followed by an ugly site that redirects to Bing, which the paragraphs had just harangued.

archgoon 14y ago

They created a frontend to Bing, and a way to group site restrictions. A more honest title would be "I built a better frontend to Google (by which I mean Bing)".

GhotiFish 14y ago

Search programming: c libraries http://www.bing.com/search?q=c%20libraries%20%28%20+site:php.net%20OR%20+site:java.sun.com%20OR%20+site:python.org%20OR%20+site:ruby-lang.org%20%29 http://www.bing.com/search?q=c%20libraries%20%28%20+site:php... good job. edit: All things considered. I think this blog might be a joke.

mtgx 14y ago

Is this a joke?

lwf 14y ago

Pretty obviously a troll, their blog tagline is "Blog of the The Greatest Person to Have Ever Lived"

ferostar 14y ago

Although i don't personally think that this project (nor the way it was presented here) is worth much, we have to agree that we are now in a place where limiting search results is relevant and filtering content will be more and more important as years go by and the information continues to increase at this rate.

asadjb 14y ago

So a worse duckduckgo.com then?

dkhenry 14y ago

So he made something like Blekko, but he used bing as the backend instead of his own backend. How did this hit the front page ?

neya 14y ago

So, first I thought "Oh no, not another DuckduckGo!" Then the article's first line had Google misspelt as 'Gogle' and then there were a few paragraphs with too many biased assumptions and with more of marketing slogans revolved around the importance of 'you'..and so I thought it's a social network with a search engine integrated. But then, I thought "hey, isn't that what Google already does?" And then I clicked the link, it's just a semi-polished front-end, with serif and sans-serif fonts mixed, that just builds-up queries for ONE particular search engine (Bing). Atleast, if there was an option to choose between any of the top 3 Search engine's, I would have been slightly impressed. Honestly, this is a disappointment and the title is misleading. It solves a very little problem. Anyway, I don't want this to be a 'hate-only' comment, so, I'll share what I know with the community, so far: (Replace news.ycombinator.com with the site you want to search for) 1) If you want to search a specific site, then type in : site:news.ycombinator.com 2) If you want to exclude keywords, then type in: site:news.ycombinator.com -mongodb This will exclude all results containing 'mongodb' 3) If you are searching for a specific string within the results, then type: site:news.ycombinator.com riak This will explicitly highlight the word riak in your results and also include only results that matches this string. You could also search for a particular term in double quotes to be included with your result: site:news.ycombinator.com "paul graham" Hope this helps..

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islon 14y ago

"Take a look at NeatSeek, and prepare to be amazed." You are right: I'm amazed by the amount of self deception and wishful thinking in this article. You missed the point so hard you hit yourself.

epicjunction 14y ago

A suggestion - As it stands right now, your title and blog is link-baity as it belittles the work of engineers at Google. Re-title your submission contextual search because you're searching within a silo or context of websites. The problem you're trying to solve is along the lines of millionshort.com in that you are trying to lessen the impact of over-optimization of results. As for an explanation of the down-votes you're getting, I can only refer you to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4962544 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4962544

greenyoda 14y ago

This site takes the problem of the search filter bubble[1] and pushes it to the extreme. It might be useful for people who want to avoid, at any cost, political opinions that they disagree with. However, if you're trying to solve a hard problem that you don't know the answer to, is it reasonable to assume that you do happen to know what tiny subset of the web contains your unknown answer? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filter_bubble

jrussbowman 14y ago

blekko allows you to do this with their feature to create your own slashtags. for unscatter.com I took the approach of using other sites apis but the caveat being I never intended it to compete with Google or bing or the like as it's results are based on recency rather than the relevancy. in one incarnation of unscatter.com I did something similar to what you did except I used boss. one thing you should consider is there is a limit on how many characters are in a get request and you will hit it fast embedding all those site: declarations. good luck.

joshguthrie 14y ago

Imma let you finish but Google had the best doodles of all time. Of all time!