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by eitland 5y ago
Don't need to either. Just starting in an end and fix the worst omissions would be a good start.
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by eitland 5y ago
Feedback about the landing page: The image front and center is small. And then when I pinch to zoom to look at the picture on the front page it makes itself smaller. Also no screenshots gallery. General feedback: this is an area were I feel
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by eitland 5y ago
SMS cannot do group chats in any meaningful way. So no, at least SMS is not a social network. I don't like WhatsApp anymore but it was in its time my favourite social network. I had all my important groups there, used it exclusively to
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by eitland 5y ago
No, it is not going back to XUL. But, it is amomg other things to make a function available that will remove the top tab bar or at least make it invisible. Not exactly hard, I do it manually every single time I restart my Firefox Developer
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by eitland 5y ago
> I always thought it just needs a bit more attention, and I'm willing to donate, but I don't trust Mozilla for routing what we give towards Firefox development. In fact if they cannot avoid answering their answer is that donat
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by eitland 5y ago
> We’ve also significantly reduced main-thread load. Good. Still waiting for a message about "fixed the extension API".
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by eitland 5y ago
So it seems this is an understandable case. Google not only rank but also filter pages based on text of links pointing to them. This has been going on for a while, at one point before Obama, searching for a "a miserable failure" g
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by eitland 5y ago
This seems to depend on a lot. I rarely see "No results found". That is a completely valid result in my opinion. I often see pages that doesn't contain my search string. Sometimes is is something trivial like query: "som
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by eitland 5y ago
You had working doublequotes until recently? For me those disappeared years ago :-/
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by eitland 5y ago
Well, it is a well known tool for temporary tunneling of http. Google knows and the rest of the results confirm it. Now, if your explanation was the entire explanation it would be kind of ok if they did like Kagi do and Google did themselve
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by eitland 5y ago
Hey, free advertising for you and your search engine: Marginalia search, by punishing ad- and tracking-heavy pages and by being strict in how it interprets my queries sometimes surfaces better results than Google and DDG. In particular I ha
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by eitland 5y ago
Let me phrase it this way: I'll happily say bye bye to instant answers across all search engines just to get my working search engine back (preferably with a blacklist).
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by eitland 5y ago
Things they told us at boot camp: It is ok to tell them your name and rank. Expect everything else to be twisted. Luckily I have never been tested in such a situation, I guess it will be pretty hard to stick to this in the long run.
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by eitland 5y ago
But then tell me loud and clear that you did it . If WalterBright didn't see it it probably wasn't loud and clear enough.
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by eitland 5y ago
> I think in part that Google just has gotten a spectacularly confusing failure mode. If it can't find good matching contents, it starts second-guessing your query and producing other results, which makes you think it's not eve
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by eitland 5y ago
Yep, and now we are in a better position than we have been in a long time since a number of engines are building their own indexes. In my opinion the most interesting in this regard (i.e. building its own index) is marginalia who shows that
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by eitland 5y ago
> That happens to be my own submission, FWIW. Ok, I felt something was odd but didn't connect the dots as I was to quick :-D Anyways, thanks!
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by eitland 5y ago
> Here's a fine example of why DDG's search results are worse than useless, if you needed another one. Well, we are comparing against Google, aren't we? The company that let scamware and scareware advertise or SEO their wa
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by eitland 5y ago
And so? Startpage is just Google. If you dislike being tracked by Google and Bing it is still better to use DDG or Startpage.
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by eitland 5y ago
See my reply to dredmorbius (in another subthread): https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=29861689 (I think there is some automation to prevent duplicate content so I link to it instead.)
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by eitland 5y ago
See my reply to dredmorbius (sibling comment): https://news.ycombinator.com/edit?id=29861689 (I think there is some automation to prevent duplicate content so I link to it instead.)
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by eitland 5y ago
It was discussed on HN 4 days ago although it seems to have been flagged off the front page or something after a very short time: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29813079
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by eitland 5y ago
Then again: 1. even enabling personal blacklists would be a huge benefit to power users even if they aren't aggregated. 2. the user I replied to above suggested running n 1000 vps-es or using a criminal botnet. Both of these are signif
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by eitland 5y ago
1. How about we stop calling this NFT thing Web3? Isn't it in its current form at least an insult to both the original web and web2 (and with that I mean what it was thought of back when we talked about it: interactive pages leading to
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by eitland 5y ago
Might be correct but it was rising exponentially until Google started using dirty tactics again and it is still rising extremely quick while Google isn't rising. DuckDuckGo has been profitable for years already so they only need patien
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by eitland 5y ago
> but what's stopping me from running x,000's of little scripts on a x,000 different VPS's (or a botnet, if I'm a bit evil) Price. You have to be seriously dedicated or have serious economic muscles to pull this off.
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by eitland 5y ago
Startpage is just a privacy frontend for Google. The quality was just as miserable as Google last I checked; seriously underestimating me and overestimating their miserable Artificial Intelligence. I don't know if it works privacy wise
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by eitland 5y ago
Google has stepped up their fight against it. Not by improving their own quality but by throwing more roadblocks in front of Chrome users who want to use DDG.
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by eitland 5y ago
> This is the thing people don't get about search. Not only is it incredibly difficult to accurately predict what content will give people exactly what they want, but there is an entire class of bad actors dedicated to making the re
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by eitland 5y ago
> It’s like asking someone in the street for directions and they’re embarrassed they don’t know the way so point you in a random direction. Not helpful! This is an extremely good explanation of what is going on and why it drives me crazy

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