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by chris_f 6y ago
This is an interesting talk by Frank Abagnale (the real life person the story was based on) at Google. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsMydMDi3rI
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An App Called Napster (Documentary)(youtube.com)
1 points by chris_f 6y ago|0 comments
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by chris_f 6y ago
Quite impressive. There are now companies coming out with the option of being paid search engines, most recently Neeva. What's your opinion on this approach?
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by chris_f 6y ago
Good article. Petal search and Gowiki were completely new to me and I pay pretty close attention to other search engines (I created Runnaroo). Another area to focus on when reviewing search engines are the enriched results (i.e. "Insta
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by chris_f 6y ago
Very cool Matt! My only feedback is that it would be good if the source of the instant answer was displayed and linked to so that I could go to the underlying webpage source directly.
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by chris_f 6y ago
https://www.runnaroo.com/blog/the-search-engine-hacker-news-... Uses Google index for organic search, but respects quotes unlike Google, Bing, or DDG. I'm the creator. Gigablast also mentioned here is very cool a
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by chris_f 6y ago
A lot of other professions build complex things, even sometimes involving large teams across different departments. Do they all have their different industry frameworks/methodologies (like Agile), or is that unique to software?
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by chris_f 6y ago
I was part of the pilot [0], and enjoyed the process. It didn't cost anything, and they only requested random surveys on the service. My extension just sets the default search engine to Runnaroo, and I don't promote it much becau
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by chris_f 6y ago
> "To me it seems the public can't be persuaded that paying for something is better than getting it "for free" (with ads and tracking)" This is even more true when the paid option is often a worse version of th
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by chris_f 6y ago
Agree. I went and looked how they monetize after reading the article [0] . Revenue comes from the below: 1. Search engine partners 2. Affiliate links on 'Start Page' [0] https://vivaldi.com/blog/vivaldi-busine
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by chris_f 6y ago
> "There's also things like https://coil.com/ who seem like they help support online content creators. I wonder if there's a way to treat search results like "content". It is possible. I built
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by chris_f 6y ago
>"...it doesn't proxy at all, you are literally redirected to Google and it doesn't add anything. " If you are looking for proxied Google results, your main options are Runnaroo [0] and Startpage [1]. I'm the cre
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WhatsApp updates its Privacy Policy to mandate data-sharing with Facebook(xda-developers.com)
60 points by chris_f 6y ago|17 comments
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by chris_f 6y ago
The file says "Confidential Proprietary Information" just above the price list. What does that mean in this context? They are making it publically available on their website, and one of the intents of the new bill was to make th
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by chris_f 6y ago
This is cool. Are all of the entries manually added, or are you also pulling in information from outside structured sources like Wikipedia?
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by chris_f 6y ago
I would say that may be true for the average HN reader, but in my experience definitely not true for the average overall user. Based on the linked study [0], 57% of people can't tell the difference between a Google ad and an organic se
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by chris_f 6y ago
Interestingly enough, I just went to 'Google' that question [0] and got some very non-relevant info boxes: https://imgur.com/a/J9U5ZwJ ----- [0] https://www.google.com/search?q=google+ad+reven
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by chris_f 6y ago
The estimated average Google search ad cost-per-click (CPC) is $2.69 [0]. Working on the conservative assumptions that an average person will run 10 searches a day and click on 1 search ad a day, Google will make $83.39 a month from the ave
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by chris_f 6y ago
We will respect your search query at Runnaroo if you use quotes. Google also has a verbatim search filter, which does a decent job most of the time.
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by chris_f 6y ago
At the time, HotBot was my other go-to search engine. Interesting to see that it is still around, but is now a VPN company.
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How AltaVista, the first good search engine, fell into the digital abyss(tedium.co)
349 points by chris_f 6y ago|228 comments
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by chris_f 6y ago
> We actually use Google's Search API under the hood. It might be possible that Google is giving you different results in a browser based on your search history. Cool project! Just a heads up, the Google search API provides differ
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Building a Better Search Engine for Semantic Scholar (2020)(medium.com)
1 points by chris_f 6y ago|0 comments
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Managing your privacy: Web Browsers(cupwire.com)
2 points by chris_f 6y ago|0 comments
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by chris_f 6y ago
I guess that's what I'm wondering. Is there something that I make missing? FF has lost so much ground to Chrome. Does it just come down to Google having significantly better distribution channels vs. a "better" product?
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Ask HN: Why is Chrome a better browser than Firefox?
1 points by chris_f 6y ago|6 comments
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by chris_f 6y ago
Congratulations on the launch. I have worked in open source and public record research for the last 15 years, and your coverage is extremely impressive. Do you have any long term plan for the site? I can see this going in a lot of differen
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by chris_f 6y ago
> For example this is the #2 result for "python f strings" on DDG[1]. It's total garbage, and, quoting the blog, "we can do better". (This result is also on page 1 for the same query on Google.) There are other
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by chris_f 6y ago
> Yeah, all of these are quite DDG-friendly searches... This is exactly correct. Excluding poor local search results (which is understandable bc of the privacy aspect), Bing/DDG has trouble with long tale search query relevance (
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Simple Search by the Markup(themarkup.org)
2 points by chris_f 6y ago|0 comments

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