I dont use it, but Blekko had some interesting ideas with slashtags http://blekko.com/
I like the slogan "the spam free search engine". But How do they make Money?
Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
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Re: Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
#42I dont use it, but Blekko had some interesting ideas with slashtags http://blekko.com/
Actually I like it :-) I like the UI and the results are pretty good. Thanks for posting this. I added it to my bookmarks.
Re: Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
#43Does there exist any non-commercial search engine? When I say "non-commercial", I don't just mean a search engine that doesn't make money, I mean a search engine that excludes all commercial websites. You accept credit cards? Sorry, you're out. You have an ad on your page? Out. Simple as that. I suspect this view of the web could bring back some of the old magic feeling. It would include Terry Tao's blog, and all of Wikipedia, but exclude the SEO'd crap that Google has incentivized.
Re: Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
#44Maybe it's just me, but search engines suffer from a vicious circle. Noone uses your search engine unless you have enough indexed pages, and you can't index the entire web (or even a small portion of it) unless you have enough generated $$$ for high-performance servers.
That probably explains why search engine space is dominated by a few power players, with newer players like DuckDuckGo being used by only a dedicated bunch of fans.
Re: Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
#45for finding stuff again (~one third of all your searches)
http://archify.com - What You See Is What You Search is your private search engine for web/FB/TW/email/..
Disclaimer: I'm archify team member
Re: Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
"those two big engines ( Google and Bing ) couldn't probably adopt because they are simply too big." and "some good coder could simply copy it in like 2 weeks." seem very contradictory.
The idea is really simple but the results are nothing like normal search engine (it works differently than blekko, DDG, Google, Bing etc. ). People are used to the way Google works. If they(Google) tried to adopt this new way, I am sure many people would resign / change their provider. But still for many people, it would be a better experience.
If its just about ux then you should consider that google will put that option as an extra style of search and starve off your users. Either way if it's innovative get it done, if you don't make money you've at least improved the tech that is available out there (from you or google).
Re: Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
#47I have an idea( prototype? ) for a search engine that could be disruptive, with a bit of luck. It has nothing to do with bangs and slashtags. I've hired a freelancing coder to do some "wrapping up" so I could show the prototype but it is over a month now and still I haven't heard from him. I do not want to engage too much time and resources into this (hiring stationary coders) but this really is the search engine tha…
Sounds like an interesting idea from a UX perspective. If you're looking to get this developed quickly, go ahead and contact me here: http://prontotype.us/ (I would have contacted you if I could find your email)
Re: Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
#48Does there exist any non-commercial search engine? When I say "non-commercial", I don't just mean a search engine that doesn't make money, I mean a search engine that excludes all commercial websites . You accept credit cards? Sorry, you're out. You have an ad on your page? Out. Simple as that. I suspect this view of the web could bring back some of the old magic feeling. It would include Terry Tao's blog, and all of…
Now, that's a really good idea. But... on the flipside I just wonder where the incentive would be for people to eventually remove the ads.