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Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine

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

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Post by Terretta »

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…

”Bangs are shortcuts that quickly take you to search results on other sites. For example, when you know you want to search on another site like Wikipedia or Amazon, our bangs get you there fastest. A search for

    !w filter bubble
will take you directly to Wikipedia... [DDG offers] 13,505 bangs and counting...”

https://duckduckgo.com/bang

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

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Post by ehonda »

mallow wrote: post #22

OMG! I can actually search for something and not end up in some conglomerate corporate non informational results. This is a dream! How are you able to filter out all the garbage.

It is mixing Wiby's index with pages from Bings index. Wiby has criteria for the types of pages that can be part of its index, and those pages must be submitted directly by users.

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

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Post by barbarbar »

ehonda wrote: post #20
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)

It works now - and it is awesome and fast. Will definitely try this more.
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