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by chris_f 6y ago
"When I run the search on mobile I see six screens of information scraped from Wikipedia and NIH before it starts showing organic links." That is a fair criticism for mobile where the sidebar collapses to the top. On desktop, or
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by chris_f 6y ago
"But this website also deemphasizes search results in favor of curated answers, just like Google." That is not correct. On desktop, organic search results take up the middle 60% of the screen with nothing above them. The curated
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by chris_f 6y ago
"Is there a way we could get quick curated answers like this without deemphasizing search results?" Yes, here is an example of how it could work: https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=myocardial+infarction Discla
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by chris_f 6y ago
As DDG was mentioned, feel free to come check out Runnaroo. Similar to Startpage, the base for organic web results is Google, but it also includes additional vertical sources layered in to provide greater relevance. It also respects literal
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by chris_f 6y ago
Your feedback is helpful, I just added the sort by data feature, and it is a work in progress. Regarding, "what's your distinct advantage over the easy to remember site:reddit.com" It's arguable that just typing 'r
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by chris_f 6y ago
Also, Yandex has an reverse image search [0] that works for faces. It's a little creepy, but an interesting tool to find similar looking pictures of people. [0] https://yandex.com/images/
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by chris_f 6y ago
I made a web search tool [0] that pulls Reddit results (and other sources) directly into the SERP. I'm working off the thesis that combining highly relevant vertical results is the best way to combat SEO. As a fun aside, when I did a
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by chris_f 6y ago
I didn’t see that. That’s worrying. Any idea if they’re related to Brave, by any chance? I'm the creator of Runnaroo. Nope, not related to Brave, but there maybe conversations soon to add Runnaroo as one of the default search options
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by chris_f 6y ago
Jump kick high and then sweep low was a basic strategy that would cause your opponent to lose their mind in anger if you timed it right so they could never really get back up.
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by chris_f 6y ago
>"...in ST are Dhalsim, Claw, Boxer, and O.Sagat." In the US version, there were slightly different names I am guessing. Claw is most likely Vega and Boxer is Balrog?
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by chris_f 6y ago
You are right. I understand the temptation from a business perspective, but it is not an ethical practice IMO. What does the rule look like that enforces that? No ads can be placed that contain the trademark of another company? Would that b
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by chris_f 6y ago
I am rooting for this, but I have a hard time understanding how it can gain mass acceptance. Coil [0] is also an interesting app built on top of the Web Monetization API. [0] https://coil.com/
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by chris_f 6y ago
Ha, you're telling me! Yeah, taking the site down was directly related to the Hacker News post. It will be temporary though.
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by chris_f 6y ago
The only way it would work is heavy moderation on the ads served. Great question on trademark squatting, and I would love to hear the communities' thoughts. If someone searches for 'nike shoes' and gets an ad for Reebok; is t
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by chris_f 6y ago
All good questions. Trust will only come with time and a track record of making user centric decisions. Runnaroo currently does not save any information on user search queries, and a core element of the tool is the privacy aspect. If you n
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by chris_f 6y ago
Absolutely.
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by chris_f 6y ago
Wow! Thank you everyone for checking Runnaroo out. I shared it this morning mostly on a whim, and definitely did not prepare even close for the level of traffic being on the front page of Hacker News would bring. Runnaroo has been my solo
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by chris_f 6y ago
Thank you! You wouldn't believe how long I messed with that when I first set it up. I just couldn't get it to click. On the differences between the pages, currently in the middle of a redesign. Everything will be consistent very
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by chris_f 6y ago
Updated. Thanks.
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by chris_f 6y ago
I took that from one of the ways that DDG monetizes results. It's more aspirational right now than actually in practice. I was briefly in the Amazon affiliate program, but they told me search engines aren't allowed as part of th
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by chris_f 6y ago
For the organic web results, it is using Google right now, Any Deep Search results provide the specific data source at the top of the result box.
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by chris_f 6y ago
Appreciate the feedback, and I agree. The image (and news for that matter) search tabs are now kind of just a box check, but they are both on the roadmap to built out to be made much more usable. Adding a dark mode will be pretty simple a
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by chris_f 6y ago
I call that a Quick Direct. It's not for everyone, and you can disable that feature under the advanced search options. Surprisingly (to me at least) that is the feature that resonates the most with non-technical users. A lot of people
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by chris_f 6y ago
Also, just as a point of reference, here are the same queries on DuckDuckGo. react.js: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=react.js&ia=web creatine effects research: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=creatine+effects+rese
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by chris_f 6y ago
Hi HN! I'm the creator of Runnaroo. The title is a fun little rib at Neeva, which has been getting a lot of press recently. I initially launched Runnaroo in a Show HN [0] at the end of February, and wanted to do a followup because the
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Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine(runnaroo.com)
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by chris_f 6y ago
>If I had to bet, Neeva will go after business users and combine Bing's index of the public web with their index of internal business data to make a catered experience that's subscription worthy. Completely agree. There is m
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by chris_f 6y ago
>...it should be easy to make the proverbial google killer. Let's say that's the case (which absolutely isn't true), the challenge is that Google currently controls the access points to the web for most people. Google o
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by chris_f 6y ago
It makes no sense that this article writes off DuckDuckGo as a similar offering and compares it more to Startpage. DDG and Neeva are both based on Bing, and both integrate (or plan to integrate) many other search sources. Startpage only pr
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by chris_f 6y ago
No inside knowledge, but it wouldn't make sense for Bing not to count searches from all of the below as part of their total number. - DuckDuckGo - Ecosia - Qwant - OneSearch - Search Encrypt - Swisscows - etc.

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