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Show HN: No Trash Search
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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 use…
That's a good idea! Not OP, but I'm creating a faster search engine for programming queries, depending on the tech searched it will also point to curated sites that could have the answer. Will try to implement your idea as well. Thanks!
Re: Show HN: No Trash Search
#43So many listed their search engines that I feel at this point we need an aggregater
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#44I 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…
120 sites is pretty hilarious and sad. "Here you go, the worthwhile part of the internet!"
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"(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
All the search engines have trash. I retrieve results from a variety of search engines and mix them into a simplified SERP with zero cruft that can be read very quickly. Some call searching multiple search engines "meta-search". The main differences with mine is 1. it is all done client side (there is no remote "meta-search" engine) and 2. searches can be "continued" where they left off at any time. This allows one to avoid rate limits. There are always trash results, every search engine has them in their SERPs, but I find that the more results and the more varied the results the better the chance of finding useful, non-trash ones. Gigablast allows returning at least 100 results at a time. Few search engines allow 100 results at a time that anymore. Google still allows it but will not allow a user to retrieve more than 200-something results total.
Re: Show HN: No Trash Search
#46I 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 ?)
I think https://www.qwant.com/ use their own, just started using it so I can't really say much about it other than it seems alright compared to ddg and google(?)
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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.
Which results are different than Google's?
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#48First test search "python random" - returned just what I would expect instead of multitude of low-quality blogs like Google Search does. +1 from me!
Google easily finds correct results for "python random" no spam no bs.
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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.
Which results are different than Google's?
Most. Yandex is great, especially for programming searches. It generally ranks GitHub, Stack Overflow and other content-heavy sites highly. Google has been taken over by weird clones of GitHub and SO lately, Yandex has no such trash.
It completely boggles my mind that the useless GitHub and SO clones rank first page on Google. Do engineers at Google not use their own product?
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#50Googled "Best smartphone 2021" which resulted in crappy result. Maybe I am missing what significant categories actually means?
How would you define a good result for that query? It seems like the only thing you could expect from that query is a page of advertising, since the "best X" without any criteria is a concept that doesn't exist in reality.