I think one of the underlying problems in search is that most search engines are more like recommendation systems.
Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
Excuse the incivility once again, but no. While we're on the topic of linguistic pedantary, strain isn't exclusive to direct mutations from a parent genome. Strains, like much of biological taxonomy, are a human abstraction to make communication of the idea of -- in this case -- "a virus sharing similar properties to coronaviruses that cause severe acute respiratory syndrome" -- albeit this is a very simplified defin…
>we would say SARS-CoV-1 and SARS-CoV-2 are both strains of SARSr-CoV Thank you for making my point, again.
I don't believe I did.
Genera -- as in SARS-CoV-2's genus is Betacoronovirus -- don't have "strains."
Only families -- such as the SARSr-CoV family -- have strains.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
#143Simply removing Pinterest would be a huge step in the right direction.
Any insight with regard to how Pinterest was able to do what they've done? Did they simply dump more money into it?
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#144What I’d like to see is a search that excludes any page with ads, and any page with affiliate links. That alone would get rid of 90% of the garbage
Sort of a server-side, page-level adblocker.
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#145There is a search engine with this exact goal: https://millionshort.com/ . I haven't had that great results with it myself though.
I tried it with "waders" which are either the things that you to put on your feet to go fishing or a category of birds (shorebirds or herons). The results after going for all the options were still exclusively stores wanting to sell me the former. Garbage in, garbage out. I guess. Still I like the idea of something to side-step the SEO perhaps with more effort they can make it work but relying on Google or any major…
Google Scholar "waders" [1]
[1] https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C29&q=wad...
Re: Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
#146Earlier quoted context omitted.
COVID-19 isn't a coronavirus, it's the disease caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus.
Giving you the benefit of the doubt, and assuming this isn't just pedantry, especially since you're getting downvotes (because I assume everyone thinks this is just pedantic correction) I looked it up. In the context of "trying to do research on coronaviruses" your comment appears to be not only correct but an important distinction, rather than the pedantry it appears to be. From Wikipedia: "...more lethal varieties…
Complaining about pedantry is the new pedantry.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
#147I think there's a simple google way. Just add `-bigwebsite.com` to your query. [search term] -google -youtube -facebook ... -top100website and it should work. I found a list of the top 1m alexa websites here: http://s3.amazonaws.com/alexa-static/top-1m.csv.zip An add-on with that list should do the work.
That's pretty clunky. - there's probably a pretty low limit for size of Google queries, you'll likely hit it quickly - you won't be able to search for e.g a story about YouTube censoring some content
I don't know about the current query size limit but I think it's pretty likely to get hit quickly as you correctly pointed out. But, it's useful to use the wildcard "-site" ex: "-site:bigwebsite.com" for excluding just the site, and not the very word being mentioned.
ex:
facebook censorship -site:facebook.com
https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook+censorship+-site%3A...
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#148Depending on what you're looking for, try Google Scholar [1]
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#149Reminds me of this classic pg essay: http://www.paulgraham.com/ambitious.html Specifically this quote: "The way to win here is to build the search engine all the hackers use. A search engine whose users consisted of the top 10,000 hackers and no one else would be in a very powerful position despite its small size, just as Google was when it was that search engine." There has been a lot of grumblings about the state o…
I feel that we should go down the adblock hosts list approach, where people download website lists from individuals they trust who have curated or scraped links of websites complete with keywords, and its up to the user to refresh their lists and then perform a search on their website.txt file
It will be limited, but still quite powerful, similar to the way that we can pick and choose different host file sources from the web.
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#150My hobby project is https://random.surf (works better on desktop than mobile). I share that same desire to visit the web less travelled. I want to discover interesting sites that deserve to be bookmarked because they will never show up in a search engine.
This is excellent