> Imagine a search engine that simply removed the top 1 million most popular web sites from its index. What would you discover?
A lot of my competitors who are still on the first page of Google results.
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#122This is pretty amazing. I didn't know that the old internet was still there! This may become my new favorite search engine.
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#123Funny, on my first query I found an obscure HN scraper:
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#124I really like this. Right away I found some new sites about that I hadn't seen before with interesting content.
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#125Is it safe to assume that this is how Google's search results would look if nobody did SEO?
No, not at all. Google is driven by many signals that SEOs try to optimize on, but the methodology is still the same. Top-ranking sites have high-quality sites linking to them, good content, and are supposed to not look spammy (though that's debatable).
I don't know how this engine ranks but I assume it's a similar system, they're just chopping a good portion of the results out. For what you said to be true, the top 10K/100K/1M rankings would have to be there entirely due to intervention from an SEO, and that's just not the case. The Wikipedia's of the world have enough going for them that they don't need SEO, so they'll always show up in Google, and never in this engine.
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#126I would like to see the search engine adhere more strictly to quoted search terms. It seems that they are partially ignored, which gives it some of the same problems that the major engines have.
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#1278 hours later, we just launched our first re-design. Thanks for all the great feedback and support. More to come.
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#128It's interesting to see popularity used as an inverse corollary with quality. Imagine a TV that skipped the most popular programming (goodbye American Idol), or a radio station that only plays non-hits. Of course, there are great websites out there that are very popular (Wikipedia, NYTimes/WSJ, StackOverflow). I'd love to see a search engine with a better signal for quality than non-popularity (this search engine), o…
Should be popular with hipsters.
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#129Now if I could add it to firefox's search bar...
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#130This is a cool search engine for discovery, but it defeats the purpose when you are looking for a location. Do a search for "facebook", you will not get any result that links you to facebook.com .