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Show HN: Mwmbl crawler extension: crawl the web from Firefox(github.com)
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Compost Heater(en.wikipedia.org)
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Chipdrop(getchipdrop.com)
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Music Tuned to 440 Hz versus 432 Hz and Health Effects (2019)(pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
89 points by daoudc 5y ago|85 comments
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by daoudc 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback! Yup, a delay is on the to-do list.
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by daoudc 5y ago
Oh that's interesting, I may try and get in touch with the author.
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by daoudc 5y ago
Ah good point, we haven't done any stemming or anything like that yet.
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by daoudc 5y ago
While search funds most of Google, most employees at Google don't work on search. A small proportion of Google's revenue would be plenty for good quality search.
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by daoudc 5y ago
Thanks for the detailed feedback! I think most of most of the problems here are because we have a really small index right now. Increasing the number of documents is our top priority. I agree that some kind of feedback when there are no r
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by daoudc 5y ago
Update: there's been interest from a few people so I've started a Matrix chat here for anyone that wants to help out or provide feedback: https://matrix.to/#/#mwmbl:matrix.org
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by daoudc 5y ago
Good suggestion, thanks.
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by daoudc 5y ago
Impressive! Does that include the startup costs of the server you bought, and maintaining it?
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by daoudc 5y ago
Agreed, this was my thinking - and since I'm better at Python, it's faster for me to get stuff done. I would like to rewrite it in Rust though, all help from Rustaceans gladly accepted!
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by daoudc 5y ago
Yes, that is a concern. I'd probably worry about it if and when it started happening, however.
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by daoudc 5y ago
Yes, I'm planning to do something like this.
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by daoudc 5y ago
Actually I was thinking of something vaguely along those lines!
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by daoudc 5y ago
Thanks, but these are not technically non-profit: "Ecosia is a search engine based in Berlin, Germany. It donates 80% of its profits to nonprofit organizations that focus on reforestation" [1] "80% of profits will be distribu
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by daoudc 5y ago
Feel free to email me if you want to be involved!
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by daoudc 5y ago
Thanks for the feedback! I'll take a look at your examples and see if I can improve the rankings.
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by daoudc 5y ago
TBF I don't think Google intentionally degrades results, but they have less incentive to improve the results.
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by daoudc 5y ago
Niche for now, but I think a lot of people can see the value of search without ads.
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by daoudc 5y ago
Check out YaCy. It's great if you're happy with slow search!
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by daoudc 5y ago
Yes, I think a subscription model is the way to go.
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by daoudc 5y ago
It's pronounced "mumble". I live in Mumbles, which is spelt Mwmbwls in Welsh.
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by daoudc 5y ago
I also want to incorporate a community aspect to ranking, allowing upvoting and downvoting of results. I've not yet figured out how to reconcile this idea with not having any tracking though. Perhaps a separate interface for logged-in
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by daoudc 5y ago
Wikimedia has an estimated $157m in donations this year. If we could get a small fraction of this amount we should be able to build something pretty good.
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by daoudc 5y ago
The plan is to fund it through donations
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by daoudc 5y ago
Thanks! A really simple one for now: number of matching terms, and then prioritising matches earlier in the result string. But this is something I'm looking forward to working on properly when I get a bigger index.
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Show HN: I'm building a non-profit search engine(github.com)
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by daoudc 5y ago
Claudia Roden's book of Middle Eastern Food is excellent and includes many medieval recipes.

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