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Re: Show HN: No Trash Search

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Post by yukinon »

pacificmint wrote: post #12

I 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…

From OP, "'No Trash Search' is very focused on STEM and not 'for daily use'". I would assume your 3 hole punch review search query falls outside of what this specializes in.

Re: Show HN: No Trash Search

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Post by narrator »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #17
rickdeveloper wrote: post #2

I built this website a couple of months ago because I was annoyed by how hard it was to find useful things on Google. As "Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories" [0] is currently #1 on the front page I figured I'd share this project again. I hope it's useful to some people. 'No Trash Search' is very focussed on STEM and not "for daily use". It's surprisingly good when you're…

While I can understand the appeal, restricting your search engine to only ~120 websites out of hundreds of millions (?) is basically giving up on the Web. (BTW, any good search engines these days that aren't indirectly using Google or Bing ?)

There's http://yandex.com . It's great if you want to search controversial subject matter and controversial results that Google wouldn't give you. The reverse image search is also amazing.

Re: Show HN: No Trash Search

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #17
rickdeveloper wrote: post #2

I built this website a couple of months ago because I was annoyed by how hard it was to find useful things on Google. As "Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories" [0] is currently #1 on the front page I figured I'd share this project again. I hope it's useful to some people. 'No Trash Search' is very focussed on STEM and not "for daily use". It's surprisingly good when you're…

While I can understand the appeal, restricting your search engine to only ~120 websites out of hundreds of millions (?) is basically giving up on the Web. (BTW, any good search engines these days that aren't indirectly using Google or Bing ?)

"(BTW, any good search engines these days that aren't indirectly using Google or Bing ?)"

The code for Gigablast is open-source, including the crawler.

I could be wrong but I do not think search.marginalia.eu nor wiby.me use Google or Bing.

The comment about "hundreds of millions" is interesting. Assume hypothetically a search engline claimed to be searching millions of sites for a given query but in truth it was actually only searching 120 sites that it had determined answered this query (i.e., was the most popular answer source) for the majority of users. How would a user verify the search engine's claim about searching millions of sites was true. What if the search engine only allowed the user to retrieve a maxmimum of about 230 results, not matter how many sites it claimed to search.

Re: Show HN: No Trash Search

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Post by imachine1980_ »

1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #33
BlueTemplar wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I can understand the appeal, restricting your search engine to only ~120 websites out of hundreds of millions (?) is basically giving up on the Web. (BTW, any good search engines these days that aren't indirectly using Google or Bing ?)

"(BTW, any good search engines these days that aren't indirectly using Google or Bing ?)" The code for Gigablast is open-source, including the crawler. I could be wrong but I do not think search.marginalia.eu nor wiby.me use Google or Bing. The comment about "hundreds of millions" is interesting. Assume hypothetically a search engline claimed to be searching millions of sites for a given query but in truth it was act…

Gigablast resource tend to be full of trash in my short experience whit it

Re: Show HN: No Trash Search

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Post by fuckcensorship »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #17
rickdeveloper wrote: post #2

I built this website a couple of months ago because I was annoyed by how hard it was to find useful things on Google. As "Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories" [0] is currently #1 on the front page I figured I'd share this project again. I hope it's useful to some people. 'No Trash Search' is very focussed on STEM and not "for daily use". It's surprisingly good when you're…

While I can understand the appeal, restricting your search engine to only ~120 websites out of hundreds of millions (?) is basically giving up on the Web. (BTW, any good search engines these days that aren't indirectly using Google or Bing ?)

Check out marginalia[1], made by another user on HN.

[1]: https://search.marginalia.nu/

Re: Show HN: No Trash Search

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Post by rank0 »

The first two results for “Rust awesome” were two ads which took up my entire screen on mobile. Both travel related.

The GitHub repo was third and had to be scrolled to.

Seems pretty trash to me.

Re: Show HN: No Trash Search

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Post by throwawayboise »

rickdeveloper wrote: post #2

I built this website a couple of months ago because I was annoyed by how hard it was to find useful things on Google. As "Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories" [0] is currently #1 on the front page I figured I'd share this project again. I hope it's useful to some people. 'No Trash Search' is very focussed on STEM and not "for daily use". It's surprisingly good when you're…

> Under the hood it's little more than a programmable search engine [1] with a whitelist of ~120 sites

So back to what web search was in the 1990s, roughly: an index from a curated selection of sites.

Re: Show HN: No Trash Search

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Post by ColinHayhurst »

BlueTemplar wrote: post #17
rickdeveloper wrote: post #2

I built this website a couple of months ago because I was annoyed by how hard it was to find useful things on Google. As "Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories" [0] is currently #1 on the front page I figured I'd share this project again. I hope it's useful to some people. 'No Trash Search' is very focussed on STEM and not "for daily use". It's surprisingly good when you're…

While I can understand the appeal, restricting your search engine to only ~120 websites out of hundreds of millions (?) is basically giving up on the Web. (BTW, any good search engines these days that aren't indirectly using Google or Bing ?)

Try Mojeek https://blog.mojeek.com/2021/03/to-track-or-not-to-track.htm... Disclosure: team member. Feedback good or bad appreciated

Re: Show HN: No Trash Search

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Post by [deleted] »

version_five wrote: post #19
BlueTemplar wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

While I can understand the appeal, restricting your search engine to only ~120 websites out of hundreds of millions (?) is basically giving up on the Web. (BTW, any good search engines these days that aren't indirectly using Google or Bing ?)

> restricting your search engine to only ~120 websites out of hundreds of millions (?) is basically giving up on the Web. Sure - the web is now a cesspool optimized for advertising and attention. The traditional search engines made a lot more sense at the dawn of the internet when it was more about discovery. Now, for the most part, it's closer to an information retrieval tool, where a finite list of established site…

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