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For Google, you can ignore specific sites by adding "-example.com". See this example of filtering Stack Overflow out of search results: https://www.google.com/search?q=loop+over+array+items+in+jav...
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The "About" information is, counter-intuitively, under "Settings": > In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. [...] The Wiby search engine is buildi…
That makes me think: Is there a search engine which removes pages with any ads or affiliate links? That might be the easiest way to remove the commercial pages.
https://wiby.me/ exists to solve this exact problem. I've found some pretty neat/odd websites on it in the past.
I tried this yesterday. It seems biased towards the interests of the curators, and, like Google in regards to "some ideal average consumer", is therefore useless if you fall outside a certain level of similarity to the target demo. For example, I enjoy weightlifting and strength sports. I did a search for "muscle", and every result but one was using the word "muscle" as a figurative metaphor. Barely anything about ac…
https://wiby.me/ exists to solve this exact problem. I've found some pretty neat/odd websites on it in the past.
It is a carefully curated directory, which is problematic. For example, I submitted Pizza Hut's archived original web page [1], but it wasn't added. Even for a search engine exposing niches, updating a directory manually will likely be too slow, unless the directory is maintaining a single nich (e.g., unladen airspeed of every species of swallow), but then we end up with some insane number of search engines and how t…
https://wiby.me/ exists to solve this exact problem. I've found some pretty neat/odd websites on it in the past.
It is a carefully curated directory, which is problematic. For example, I submitted Pizza Hut's archived original web page [1], but it wasn't added. Even for a search engine exposing niches, updating a directory manually will likely be too slow, unless the directory is maintaining a single nich (e.g., unladen airspeed of every species of swallow), but then we end up with some insane number of search engines and how t…
Wiby is based around two main things:
Non commercial content (1) that does not rely heavily on excessive javascript and CSS (2).
http://wiby.me/submit contains the submission criteria.
I was intrigued by how dorkweed’s approach has changed over time, as described in a reply to a sibling comment.
As general search results get watered down and rotten tomato inflation maybe trends towards reflecting company interests rather than my interest-level, maybe it’s worth re-evaluating the vetting avenues we take as users.
Here’s mine: for games and shows I’ve recently found myself using quantity of fan-videos on YouTube as a proxy for quality. So far it’s been a decent means to find cult followings for something I otherwise wouldn’t necessarily hear about.
Obviously this approach has its flaws - and is subject to financial perversions to an extent - but I figure if enough people genuinely want to pay tribute to a work, it might be worth checking out.