Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine

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Post by pointhi » Thu, Jul 23, 2020, 4:43 PM UTC

Looks like a very early version of searx, which is an open source privacy-respecting metasearch engine:

Re: Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine

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Post by dragonquest » Thu, Jul 23, 2020, 4:54 PM UTC

I really like the wiby.me version of this. It displays results only from early web style pages; a great throwback to an era where not everything was "corporate".

Re: Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine

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Post by TomMarius » Thu, Jul 23, 2020, 4:58 PM UTC

blitmap wrote: post #9

I used to know of a search engine that supported a bunch of added functionality for searching some selected popular sites. Like "wp whatever" would search just Wikipedia. It supported many man little command shortcuts. It was popular among dwm/i3 users, and I have forgotten it :( I was a fan of MacOS performing searches with Command + Spacebar, so on Linux I scripted a similar popup-prompt that would open Firefox and…

Sounds like DuckDuckGo?

Re: Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine

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Post by sanqui » Thu, Jul 23, 2020, 5:03 PM UTC

As I've used the website before, I was surprised to see a larger number of search results than usual. Turns out https://wiby.org/ is distinct from the older version, https://wiby.me/, which only indexes few sites.

Re: Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine

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Post by slater » Thu, Jul 23, 2020, 5:53 PM UTC

blitmap wrote: post #9

I used to know of a search engine that supported a bunch of added functionality for searching some selected popular sites. Like "wp whatever" would search just Wikipedia. It supported many man little command shortcuts. It was popular among dwm/i3 users, and I have forgotten it :( I was a fan of MacOS performing searches with Command + Spacebar, so on Linux I scripted a similar popup-prompt that would open Firefox and…

Cuil? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuil

Re: Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine

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Post by Miner49er » Thu, Jul 23, 2020, 7:29 PM UTC

blitmap wrote: post #9

I used to know of a search engine that supported a bunch of added functionality for searching some selected popular sites. Like "wp whatever" would search just Wikipedia. It supported many man little command shortcuts. It was popular among dwm/i3 users, and I have forgotten it :( I was a fan of MacOS performing searches with Command + Spacebar, so on Linux I scripted a similar popup-prompt that would open Firefox and…

Not exactly a search engine, but maybe you mean surfraw? https://gitlab.com/surfraw/Surfraw

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfraw

Re: Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine

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Post by holler » Thu, Jul 23, 2020, 7:32 PM UTC

wow, I really like this! I'm really fed up with what google has turned into and miss when search was just a simple list of blue links w/o the unnecessary noise. Will start using this, thanks!

Re: Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine

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Post by agustif » Thu, Jul 23, 2020, 7:40 PM UTC

blitmap wrote: post #9

I used to know of a search engine that supported a bunch of added functionality for searching some selected popular sites. Like "wp whatever" would search just Wikipedia. It supported many man little command shortcuts. It was popular among dwm/i3 users, and I have forgotten it :( I was a fan of MacOS performing searches with Command + Spacebar, so on Linux I scripted a similar popup-prompt that would open Firefox and…

alfred?

Re: Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine

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Post by barbarbar » Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 4:04 AM UTC

I get 502 bad gateway.

Re: Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine

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Post by ehonda » Fri, Jul 24, 2020, 5:03 AM UTC

barbarbar wrote: post #19

I get 502 bad gateway.

Wish I saw this earlier heh. I have a bug to fix!

Edit: I believe the bug which caused the crash is fixed now (knock on wood)