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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…
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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 ?)
Check out marginalia[1], made by another user on HN. [1]: https://search.marginalia.nu/
Googled "Best smartphone 2021" which resulted in crappy result. Maybe I am missing what significant categories actually means?
One suggestion that I have is to remove w3schools.com from the whitelist. MDN is a much better source for information about web development.
Pretty nifty project. I'm curious what whitelist are you using, would it be possible to list allowed domains somewhere publicly. One suggestion that I have is to remove w3schools.com from the whitelist. MDN is a much better source for information about web development.
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…
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 ar…
There is a form [0] on the about page that allows people to suggest websites to add :)
> p.s. OP this is amazing! Would love an article explaining any backstory and details on how you made this (or setup / configured it).
Thanks! I think this is gonna be disappointing from an engineering perspective, and certainly not article worthy :) As further explained in my other comments, the website is basically a wrapper around google programmable search [1] where I whitelisted a set of sites I found useful personally, plus some suggestions from other users. It's really easy to set up.
As to why, I will quote some other comments of mine:
"I built this website a couple of months ago because I was annoyed by how hard it was to find useful things on Google."
"to find things more easily while programming or studying (I study biology, cs and ai; and philosophy in my free time, so expect the best results for queries related to those subjects). ... When I'm not doing those things, I just use Google or DDG because they have better results for day-to-day queries."
Let me know if you have other questions!
[0] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdf8lAoShQz7Wjl9h60...
[1] https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/overview
Googled "Best smartphone 2021" which resulted in crappy result. Maybe I am missing what significant categories actually means?
Which search engine returns good results for such a query?
Googled "Best smartphone 2021" which resulted in crappy result. Maybe I am missing what significant categories actually means?
(obviously: this is subjective, so what's significant to me may not be to you.) Honestly I just created this search engine for myself to find things more easily while programming or studying (I study biology, cs and ai; and philosophy in my free time, so expect results the best results for queries related to those subjects). I think those subjects also appeal to the HN audience, that's why I shared it here. When I'm…