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Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?

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Re: Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?

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Post by wyck »

om42 wrote: post #98
wyck wrote: post #95

Google search is so sad these days, all results are media conglomerates, it's completely counter to the core reason why the internet existed. I really hope by catering to these mega corps that they are completely undermining their brand and someone else comes along and pulls the rug out from underneath them. If anyone noticed during the first couple days of covid, google search was free from large media results, the…

Do you have a link to that thread where an anon google employee posted on why it occurred? Interested in what happened since I didn't realize it did.

The reason given: Legit covid information was not getting through during the fist few days of the crisis, basically made an emergency move to disable the whitelist/blacklist functionality of the algo which reverted to how it worked years ago.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?

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Post by hopesthoughts »

sanqui wrote: post #3

There is a search engine with this exact goal: https://millionshort.com/ . I haven't had that great results with it myself though.

Oh, I've had epic results with Millionshort!! I mean, as far as stripping most everything away, and just surfing.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?

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Post by hopesthoughts »

nic-waller wrote: post #136

My 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.

That's definitely spinning the web, which is a whole lot of fun.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?

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Post by hopesthoughts »

text_exch wrote: post #171

I've long wanted to build a search engine of only personal blogs. I am less familiar with the field of information retrieval so I haven't gotten started yet, but it's always been a dream of mine and if anyone is interested please contact me at threemillionthflower [at] the world's largest email provider. Discovering unknown parts and blogs on the internet is one of the enduring goals of a newsletter that I run [1], w…

I'm now a subscriber.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?

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Post by hopesthoughts »

saadalem wrote: post #61

Ok here is an additional idea for fun : A search engine that shows only urls that are not indexed b google / another one that gives you the websites with lower pagerank

Showing all the lower ranked sites would be pretty cool. A lot of blogs would probably end up there, especially if they don't care about pagerank like me.

Re: Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?

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Post by starfallg »

jotm wrote: post #123
cameronbrown wrote: post #72

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Definitely. What if I want to research information on a certain 1989 student protest to write a paper about censorship?

Look, I know it's important history and all, but looking at it realistically, it's a tiny part of the information the average person needs. Them removing Reddit, EdX, Sci-hub or the Hong Kong Companies Registry from search results would have a much bigger impact.

You very conveniently left out Wikipedia and all of the other sites that are censored.
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