I did a search for "eternal crusade".
The blob of the ads are still the top results. This is not the "no trash search" I'm looking for.
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#22I need to buy a 3 hole punch, and when searching for reviews yesterday I had the same problem of lots of hits with affiliate links and low quality sites. I searched for “3 hole punch review” [1] here, and the results have zero relevancy. First one is a Chinese cell phone company, second a Wikipedia page for an episode of the office, third a thesaurus page with synonyms for ‘colorful’ and fourth a link to the Wikipedi…
Now your comment above is the first search result for "3 hole punch" on NTS!
Nice SEO campaign ;)
If only I could get NTS to whitelist my domain name (myfirstnamelastname dot com), the Big-G has hated it seemingly since even before I acquired it > ten years ago, even though it's ad-free and totally benign. Good thing I mostly just host go pkgs with it and use it for my email.
p.s. OP this is amazing! Would love an article explaining any backstory and details on how you made this (or setup / configured it).
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#23I need to buy a 3 hole punch, and when searching for reviews yesterday I had the same problem of lots of hits with affiliate links and low quality sites. I searched for “3 hole punch review” [1] here, and the results have zero relevancy. First one is a Chinese cell phone company, second a Wikipedia page for an episode of the office, third a thesaurus page with synonyms for ‘colorful’ and fourth a link to the Wikipedi…
"It's a feature not a bug" (TM) The site uses a whitelist of URLs to (attempt to) keep results relevant to science and programming. In the context in which I'm using this search engine, I have no interest in (reviews on) 3 hole punches. (That's not to say I never do, but in that case I'd use Google, Reddit, etc.) The fact that results don't show up here means that they also won't show up when I'm not looking for them…
I think your name might need a rework, then. The name of the site doesn’t match what it is doing.
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#24First test search "python random" - returned just what I would expect instead of multitude of low-quality blogs like Google Search does. +1 from me!
try "python.org random"
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#25Great job! How are the ads implemented and do they cover the costs? I'm thinking of building a similar search engine for a completely different domain. I am a bit concerned about paying for it though.
Thanks! Ads are added automatically by Google. The whole thing is little more than a wrapper around the 'Programmable Search Element Control API' which is an HTML element you can just insert into any site, like an iframe. Unfortunately this is the only way to make Programmable Search available at scale as the API is restricted to either 10 sites or 10K queries / day, even when paid! There is a paid version for the HT…
How about using the Bing API? Isn't that more open?
With caching, I think you might be able to reduce the load.
Also, why is w3fools in the list? It's an awful site.
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#26Earlier quoted context omitted.
I think your site is great, I've thought about something like this before but didn't realize how simply it could be implemented. Stupid question though: where is the list of whitelisted sites? Is that something you set up separately with google? I scanned though the code and expected to find a list somewhere, but obviously you do it in a different way
Thanks! Yes, it's configurable in a private dashboard. I created a pastebin with all sites at the time of writing this comment if that's helpful: https://pastebin.com/qLC0wQ0t . If you're looking to create your own search engine, go here: https://programmablesearchengine.google.com/cse/all .
Yes thank you, this is helpful! I think the list of sites that are included is the most important information you can provide about the project
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
"It's a feature not a bug" (TM) The site uses a whitelist of URLs to (attempt to) keep results relevant to science and programming. In the context in which I'm using this search engine, I have no interest in (reviews on) 3 hole punches. (That's not to say I never do, but in that case I'd use Google, Reddit, etc.) The fact that results don't show up here means that they also won't show up when I'm not looking for them…
I think your name might need a rework, then. The name of the site doesn’t match what it is doing.
Guess we better rename eBay and Amazon while we're at it.
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#28Great job! How are the ads implemented and do they cover the costs? I'm thinking of building a similar search engine for a completely different domain. I am a bit concerned about paying for it though.
Thanks! Ads are added automatically by Google. The whole thing is little more than a wrapper around the 'Programmable Search Element Control API' which is an HTML element you can just insert into any site, like an iframe. Unfortunately this is the only way to make Programmable Search available at scale as the API is restricted to either 10 sites or 10K queries / day, even when paid! There is a paid version for the HT…
It would be cool if I could take my existing browser history, aggregate by domain, sort by frequency & then create the necessary xml for the programmable search. Maybe with a pick & choose UI so I could decide which sites I wanted.
Right now, looking at your allow-list config, it feels a bit custom to you, but if I had an easy way to limit search to the sites I myself know and trust, I could see how that would be useful.
I know I could probably pick it out of my browser's history UI & poke it into Google's Programmable Search UI, but that seems like a hassle and a half.
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#29First test search "python random" - returned just what I would expect instead of multitude of low-quality blogs like Google Search does. +1 from me!
When I search for "python random" on Google, I get: https://docs.python.org/3/library/random.html as the first result, which is what I would expect.
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#30so you've used google programmable search to make googling better?