I really like this idea, and the very simple implementation - big things start small. We need more search engines, including ones which are not supported by advertising.
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#32A search engine without https, I think I'll stick with Google for now.
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#33Interesting idea. Isn't it a little late to slay Alta Vista though? :)
I searched for apple. Top result was the archive.org macos that showed up here on HN recently, 2nd and 3rd were apple.com indexed 10s apart.
Then some odd results - though they do include the word apple on page just once. The imdb page for 12 Monkeys appears 3 times.
I guess you're not trimming duplicates? Seems like you need some way to weight rankings too.
I wish you every success - search definitely needs some competition.
Re: Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer
#34Interesting idea. Isn't it a little late to slay Alta Vista though? :) I searched for apple. Top result was the archive.org macos that showed up here on HN recently, 2nd and 3rd were apple.com indexed 10s apart. Then some odd results - though they do include the word apple on page just once. The imdb page for 12 Monkeys appears 3 times. I guess you're not trimming duplicates? Seems like you need some way to weight ra…
I "googled" Google using Did yougogo, and Google.com didn't appear once on the first page. Funny.
Re: Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer
#35when i submit something to the search engine, it produces a result that doesn't have anything to do with the search term.
it's unclear to me how i am supposed to help improve this.
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#37Definitely some ambitious goals. There's nothing bad about that, but this has an awfully long way to go - e.g. searching for "hacker news" works fine, searching for almost anything else didn't find anything relevant. So while it's nice to say it can run in 1CPU / 1GB, I'm not sure it's very useful at that size (but I don't know how big it'd have to get to "break even" there).
Anyway, noted that it's a very early version, so good luck with it!
Re: Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer
#38I like that we are now seeing this market of pro privacy and less tracking type services like duckduckgo and this. Odd throw back to say altavista slayer. Now we need an ask jeeves slayer and we've covered most bases.
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#40I searched for "Cnn" and got 0 results. I searched for "Amazon" and got a five random results, including the IMDB page for "Rambo, Part 2." If this were really like AltaVista, I'd get 3 trillion results and have to use advanced Boolean logic to cut that down to the most useful 7,000 - so I guess having no results is sort of easier...
My boolean logic is here: [1] I'm sure it has flaws. Since the index had only five or six entries a couple of hours ago I set the matching to be wide instead of narrow. I'm also experimenting with loading the model with phrases, phrases and words or words only. I might have f-ed up the query parsing because of that. Remember, this is 0.1, fresh out of the press. Searching the tree is here: [2] Tokenization is here: […
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