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by chris_f 6y ago
>Are in some way robots.txt and those Cloudflare measures anticompetitive? Article by Matt Wells from Gigablast on Cloudflare. Gigablast has one of the largest independent search indexes. https://www.gigablast.com/blog
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by chris_f 6y ago
This almost seems like a PG submarine [0] article. Especially now, it would benefit Google to be able to point to viable competitors. Maybe I am being too skeptical though. [0] http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
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by chris_f 6y ago
There is a lot of nostalgia on HN regarding how great the web used to be before everything was commercialized. I came across this site today, and wanted to post it as a reminder that there are still great sites out there to discover that ar
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Best of the Modern Web: Darebee(darebee.com)
2 points by chris_f 6y ago|1 comments
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by chris_f 6y ago
Sorry, you're right I misread your comment. I was referring to the section about respecting the terms you want to be searched. I know Swisscows and Carrot2 both do some topic clustering, maybe those would be interesting as well.
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by chris_f 6y ago
Yes, Google is the source for organic web page results (similar to how DDG uses Bing). There are currently about 60 other sources for the vertical specific results.
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by chris_f 6y ago
>If DDG simply implemented that single feature, I would never go back to Google. Here you go. #2 on the list. https://www.runnaroo.com/blog/the-search-engine-hacker-news-...
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by chris_f 6y ago
Would have liked to seen the article list more of the specific towns. Just searched around and found this article [0], but only a few western towns were mentioned and most of the places listed are quite expensive. [0] https://ww
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by chris_f 6y ago
The one nice thing about GDELT is it translates non-english language news so that you can use an english search term and see articles in different language. It's not perfect (i.e. machine translation), but I am not aware of any other
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by chris_f 6y ago
I've used trigram matching of article title strings with some success for comparing similarity of news article. If the strings are greater than .6 they are probably about the same topic.
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by chris_f 6y ago
> If you don't mind me asking, is the money through the 'promoted' sections sustainable enough for a search engine? Sustainable to cover the cost of the service? Absolutely, it will do that, but it is not scalable that i
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by chris_f 6y ago
A cool feature update would be to map the multiple layers of related suggestions on a force-directed graph.
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by chris_f 6y ago
That's pretty good. For another option, you can also use the 'related:' on Runnaroo - https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=related%3Achrome Results sourced from SaaSHub.
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by chris_f 6y ago
It's interesting that every site had directory/portal home pages until Google. Now most search engine mimics Google's minimal search home page with little more than a search bar. I wonder if things will ever come back around
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What the Search Engines Looked Like About 20 Years Ago(seoco.co.uk)
6 points by chris_f 6y ago|3 comments
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by chris_f 6y ago
Here is a Google Custom Search Engine based on MBFC: https://factualsearch.news/
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by chris_f 6y ago
Yeah, the MBFC site isn't as 'polished' as AllSides, but they have a lot more sites covered and overall I think their rankings are better (I know that is very subjective though).
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by chris_f 6y ago
> DDG doesn't record search information in the first place. That's not entirely true. DDG saves user searches. They don't save identifying information (IP, UA, etc.) along with the user search. The below is directly fro
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by chris_f 6y ago
A trick I use to identify the source of unknown search results is to compare the SERP to a search engine that I know uses the primary source (usually Bing or Google) indirectly. So for example, instead of comparing unknown results directly
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by chris_f 6y ago
Gigablast, Mojeek, and Yandex (already a source of DDG results in Russia I believe) all have their own search indexes and APIs to access them. For a completely independent search engine, Gigabalst is surprisingly good in terms of index and
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by chris_f 6y ago
Bing's biggest advantage might be its willingness to power other search engines. DDG, Qwant, Ecosia, Swisscows and about a dozen other alternative search engines [0] are all powered by Bing. The exceptions are Runnaroo (Google), Startp
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Bing is now Microsoft Bing as the search engine gets a rebrand(theverge.com)
61 points by chris_f 6y ago|97 comments
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by chris_f 6y ago
It was really difficult to tell what the app actually does from their website. I was interested, but didn't want to have to download it just to find out.
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by chris_f 6y ago
In addition to already mentioned Plausible Analytics and Simple Analytics, there is also Fathom Analytics. Cloudflare also just announced yesterday a "privacy-first" focused analytics offering. https://blog.cloudflare.c
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by chris_f 6y ago
> Implementing an HTML tag that will attempt to charge you money is wrong on so many levels. Just a quick clarification. The HTML tag doesn't charge you anything. It just indicates that the website participates in WM and provides
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by chris_f 6y ago
That's an interesting perspective, and I don't feel attacked at all but rather appreciate the feedback. I do think there is a misunderstanding of how Web Monetization currently works though. You won't be charged anything to v
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by chris_f 6y ago
Or try: https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=u-boot+unable+to+select... Your query (even without the quotes).
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by chris_f 6y ago
Runnaroo and Startpage are both privacy focused and use Google as the base for organic web results. I am the creator of Runnaroo.
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by chris_f 6y ago
Try Runnaroo. Stack Overflow search results are directly included on the SERP (in addition to organic web results) for programming queries. Plus the privacy aspect. Example for "python string match": https://www.runnaro
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by chris_f 6y ago
The other nice thing about Web Monetization is that you can use it to divide earnings to content providers on your site through probabilistic revenue sharing [0]. I have been using it for the last 3 months and it is simple to implmentent an

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