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by chris_f 6y ago
The 'site:' operator already works in DDG how you describe. DDG is mostly Bing under the covers for organic results, so most of Bing's advanced [0] searches will work in DDG. Edit: Interestingly enough I can't get the &#
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by chris_f 6y ago
Good eye, thank you. It is fixed. Every "Deep Search" is manually tuned and added as a search within the search, and each one is slightly different depending on the type of information that data source returns.
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by chris_f 6y ago
"Unfortunately it can't do anything about search results returning precisely the opposite of what you searched for" Try this: https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=cheatsheet+keyboard+sho... I built it with
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by chris_f 6y ago
"On top of that, confidence is a big thing. What if my core hypothesis is flawed, or it's just a silly product? It's natural to want to innoculate yourself against criticism and rejection... That's a fundamental psychol
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by chris_f 6y ago
I agree, this is a fairly clear cut example. But what do you do in situations that are closer to split on people agreeing what the right answer is, or there are 10 answers that could be relevant to the same percentages of people. A query le
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by chris_f 6y ago
Search relevance is incredible difficult, especially when there is not enough information provided in the query and there are multiple "correct" answers. Someone is always going to be disappointed. You can make the argument in t
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by chris_f 6y ago
How are you deciding whether a source is right or left leaning? Is the rating a manual process based on some set of factors, or are you using an external rating source? IMO, Media Bias Fact Check [0] is on of the better external rating sour
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by chris_f 6y ago
If you are looking for a forum search, check out https://boardreader.com/ . I have a theory that web crawling alone is not the best way forward to find the most relevant results because of the volume of content continually b
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by chris_f 6y ago
This is pretty cool. I always wondered why there wasn't a user interface search somewhere for the CommonCrawl data.
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by chris_f 6y ago
I launched a new search engine a few months ago and have been looking at several alternative ways to fund it, but none of them seem to be a viable path. The best balance of privacy and user experience seems to be display ads related to sear
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by chris_f 6y ago
I noticed the other travel related aggregation APIs on your site. Have you ever thought about making a shopping aggregator API? Surprisingly there are not many of them.
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by chris_f 6y ago
I'm the creator of Runnaroo. I wrote this post because I would frequently see the same common search engine issues mentioned on HN and was is a big influence on my development of Runnaroo. Another common issue that I didn't mentio
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by chris_f 6y ago
Maybe a good strategy could be to just announce your closure on the company's launch date to generate awareness. But joking aside, people's bandwidth for new websites is so limited, especially for something like Search, which the
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by chris_f 6y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER | FRONTEND | REMOTE Looking for a frontend designer to help with UI/UX for new search engine. Not using any frontend frameworks, just plain old html/css/js based design. Website: https://www.runn
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by chris_f 6y ago
In your experience, what was the biggest challenge to be on par with Google? From using Cliqz, I felt that the relevance of search results was fairly good. The challenge I had in many cases was that the coverage was so much less for non-com
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by chris_f 6y ago
Yeah, I believe in December they did a post a day. A lot of the posts made it to the front page.
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by chris_f 6y ago
I spent a good amount of time using Cliqz. For creating their own search index, it was pretty good. But it was nowhere near as good as Google or Bing, and to the average end-user that's all that matters. Most people don't reall
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by chris_f 6y ago
Just wrote this today, specifically regarding your exact search issue. Seems like a timely share with the Cliqz news. https://www.runnaroo.com/blog/the-search-engine-hacker-news-...
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by chris_f 6y ago
I launched Runnaroo here through a Show HN a couple months back [0]. Since the frequent conversations on HN around search improvements always resonated with me and were such a large influence on many of the choices with the project, I just
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Search Engine Hacker News Has Been Asking For(runnaroo.com)
5 points by chris_f 6y ago|1 comments
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by chris_f 7y ago
"I want to be able to tell it to randomize result orders." That would be a pretty fun feature, I've never seen anyone mention that before.
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by chris_f 7y ago
Privacy certainly seems like it is the main reason people would switch. Also second time someone mentioned not requiring all search terms to be present. Quotes around each term definitely helps, but Google doesn't always respect that.
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by chris_f 7y ago
Yeah, + used to work and then it was switched to quotes to serve that purpose, but now that isn't total respected either. I used to think a true research search engine that actually respected boolean operators would be a good thing, bu
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by chris_f 7y ago
"Even then, once I have trained the search engine on my profile, what will I have gained other than teaching some other aggregator about the things I like?" I guess that's the real answer. People are more likely to switch i
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by chris_f 7y ago
I agree with you completely. I think Bing is pretty good, but using Google just makes me "feel" comfortable that I am getting the right search results. It's kind of crazy. I just have confidence in it.
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by chris_f 7y ago
Privacy is a big motivation, but to your point, not for most people. The core benefit is it attempts to pull in the best results from different vertical search source based on search query intent. Real world example, I play the guitar and s
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by chris_f 7y ago
Interesting, I get "hugo" as the first organic result on Google and 2nd on Bing (and DDG, which is the same as Bing in most cases). All of them hedge their search intention bet by also providing film information in the side bar.
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by chris_f 7y ago
My best side projects have been ones that I can walk away from at weeks at a time and pick back up when I'm interested with no ill effect. Projects that require constant attention always burn me out after the initial building enthusias
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Ask HN: What would it take for you to switch your search engine?
9 points by chris_f 7y ago|16 comments
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by chris_f 7y ago
Very nice. Also, check out https://github.com/public-apis/public-apis . There might be some new ones to add.

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