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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?
#42You should try million short. As the name suggests, it takes our the first 100 / 1k / or a million results so you're left with those that aren't all that popular. That seems to be what you're looking for.
https://millionshort.com/
Re: Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
#43https://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 actual muscles. Searching "funk" was just as bad. One page about Motown and a LOT of midis.
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#46Man you read my mind, just starting thinking about this. From a search censorship perspective, the BBS's we were building in 93 would be better than what we have now.
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#47DEVONagent is a highly configurable search utility which can be used to combine and de-duplicate results from multiple search engines at once, exclude sites or keywords from a blacklist, follow deep links within search pages, and perform some filtering logic on the text of results. Before I knew about DEVONagent I would often just search multiple engines and sources trying to find something particular (e.g. a particu…
This does look really interesting. Thank you.
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#48I've wondered too about something similar to that. Basically, I'd like sessions for searching.
Each session would have an updatable list of sites that are favored, whitelisted or blacklisted for a particular class of search.
Re: Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
#49DEVONagent is a highly configurable search utility which can be used to combine and de-duplicate results from multiple search engines at once, exclude sites or keywords from a blacklist, follow deep links within search pages, and perform some filtering logic on the text of results. Before I knew about DEVONagent I would often just search multiple engines and sources trying to find something particular (e.g. a particu…
It looks really interesting. Sadly, it's Mac only.
Does anybody knows of something similar for Windows or Linux ?
Re: Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?
#50I used a Google Custom Search Engine (CSE) to remove results from Softonic and alikes, it works well, but still very Google.
Google CSE is a great idea.Tried it in the past.
But i find the search is at a much lower quality than Google.