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Have you built your own crawler or do you rely on something like YaCy or Searx, or in other existing search engines?
A homegrown crawler is used but most search results are interspersed with existing search engine results.
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Have you built your own crawler or do you rely on something like YaCy or Searx, or in other existing search engines?
A homegrown crawler is used but most search results are interspersed with existing search engine results.
What's really made it difficult for competitors is being able to match Google's index. Bing crawls a lot of pages but is much more picky about what it index?
Also can you say where you are pulling the results from the Yandex API, Bing, Yahoo or Google itself?
Suggestions: 1. Do a list results view like Google - you're competing on so many levels that you don't want to challenge standards unless you have massive justifications that you're UX is better. I don't think the tiles are better and even if they were a little better it wouldn't be enough to challenge the paradigm. 2. Can you (or do you) restrict search results that have a high AdBlock/PrivacyBadger score? I've alwa…
Suggestions: 1. Do a list results view like Google - you're competing on so many levels that you don't want to challenge standards unless you have massive justifications that you're UX is better. I don't think the tiles are better and even if they were a little better it wouldn't be enough to challenge the paradigm. 2. Can you (or do you) restrict search results that have a high AdBlock/PrivacyBadger score? I've alwa…
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Suggestion: Start loading more results when I'm scrolling already. No need to display some text saying I should scroll. It should just work.
I do expect some breakage when using a niche extension like this, but it seems like it would be fixed for my use case if something like plainOldText's idea were implemented.
edit: Or if the scroll button thing were an a tag, I suppose I could "click" it like any other link from the keyboard. It does load more (somewhat reluctantly) if I scroll down with the arrow keys.
Suggestions: 1. Do a list results view like Google - you're competing on so many levels that you don't want to challenge standards unless you have massive justifications that you're UX is better. I don't think the tiles are better and even if they were a little better it wouldn't be enough to challenge the paradigm. 2. Can you (or do you) restrict search results that have a high AdBlock/PrivacyBadger score? I've alwa…
Second was that I get a TON of results for foreign languages: ie, a search for "gw2 wiki" results in wiki-de.guildwars2.com wiki-fr.guildwars.com and ja.gw2.wikia.com .. 3 out of top 10, 5 out of top 15 were non english, and I dont see anywhere to filter that. That might be an edge case (where 33% of results are non-English) but it highlights the shortcoming.
On the note of thinking I was only getting video/image results... I dont see anywhere to filter by result type - which is pretty standard in other search engines now.
Is there a way of turning off the screenshot previews? I don't particularly need it all the time and I'd imagine it stresses the engine a bit more than spitting things out in text-based, list format.
I'm afraid not. It's the major differentiator, otherwise it'd be the same as everything else out there.
I get that it's trying to be different, but it's going against what the users are trying to accomplish. Would be interesting running tests on this for certain query types getting certain layouts, etc. Anyway, good luck!
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Have you built your own crawler or do you rely on something like YaCy or Searx, or in other existing search engines?
A homegrown crawler is used but most search results are interspersed with existing search engine results.
I highly doubt that your queries are primarily coming from your own engine. The results are too good. It has good ranking, spelling correction, super large indices, and is fast. For example searching "GTGACCTTGGGCAAGTTACTTAACCTCTCTGTGCCTCAGTTTCCTCATCTGTAAAATGGGGATAATA" works even though it only occurs on a few pages and as the blog post that string came from explains, you need super fancy indexing techniques to handle things like that quickly. You also talk about this as if it is a single-person project, which makes it even less likely you made all this from scratch.
I like the concept and the parts that you undoubtedly make yourself like the UI, image retrieval and caching, are really good. This is a great site don't get me wrong. I just think you should be more forthcoming about where your results are coming from.
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A homegrown crawler is used but most search results are interspersed with existing search engine results.
Do you really do your own crawling for purposes other than image retrieval? Is it really any good? I highly doubt that your queries are primarily coming from your own engine. The results are too good. It has good ranking, spelling correction, super large indices, and is fast. For example searching "GTGACCTTGGGCAAGTTACTTAACCTCTCTGTGCCTCAGTTTCCTCATCTGTAAAATGGGGATAATA" works even though it only occurs on a few pages and…