Alexandria Search
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Alexandria Search
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Re: Alexandria Search
#2In a nutshell, what is the fundamental difference with this search engine compared to others?
Re: Alexandria Search
#3In a nutshell, what is the fundamental difference with this search engine compared to others?
>About Alexandria
Alexandria.org is a non-profit, ad free search engine. Our goal is to provide the best available information without compromise.
The index is built on data from Common Crawl and the engine is written in C++. The source code is available here.
We are still at an early stage of development and running the search engine on a shoestring budget.
Please contact us at -email- if you want to get involved, want to support this initiative or have any questions.
Re: Alexandria Search
#4In a nutshell, what is the fundamental difference with this search engine compared to others?
Their About page has you covered:
> Alexandria.org is a non-profit, ad free search engine. Our goal is to provide the best available information without compromise.
> The index is built on data from Common Crawl and the engine is written in C++. The source code is available (at https://github.com/alexandria-org#).
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Re: Alexandria Search
#5I just tried out this search engine and was very favorably impressed. It was quite responsive (though that could be affected by demand) and gave good results. I really like the lack of goo (e.g., ads) and the spare, clean presentation. I think it might be a great search engine for visually disabled users who rely on screen readers.
Re: Alexandria Search
#6This is really fast and cool. Looking for music-related pages, I've already found some interesting websites, like Wall of Ambient, which caters to ambient labels (https://wallofambient.com/#)
I noticed that if a term can't be found, there will be a random number of results that it says were found, but nothing is actually displayed. Eg: https://www.alexandria.org/?c=&r=&q=moonmusiq
I'll keep trying this out. It seems really promising
Re: Alexandria Search
#7In a nutshell, what is the fundamental difference with this search engine compared to others?
Their About page has you covered: > Alexandria.org is a non-profit, ad free search engine. Our goal is to provide the best available information without compromise. > The index is built on data from Common Crawl and the engine is written in C++. The source code is available (at https://github.com/alexandria-org# ). Edit: formatting
More about Common Crawl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Crawl
> Common Crawl is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that crawls the web and freely provides its archives and datasets to the public. Common Crawl's web archive consists of petabytes of data collected since 2011. It completes crawls generally every month. ...
Re: Alexandria Search
#8Unfortunately it seems it doesn't support Cyrillic or Bulgarian well. I googled the mayor of the city I live in and there are 5 results all irrelevant. Unfortunately the experience in 'minor' languages is consistently bad in all alternative search engines.
Re: Alexandria Search
#9I think the fact that after a long while there are new search engines (Kagi was introduced very recently on HN, now this) should be a wake up call for Google - their search has lost some shine for quite a while. Hopefully something will come out of this - competition is good.
Re: Alexandria Search
#10Unfortunately it seems it doesn't support Cyrillic or Bulgarian well. I googled the mayor of the city I live in and there are 5 results all irrelevant. Unfortunately the experience in 'minor' languages is consistently bad in all alternative search engines.
We don't know resources behind this project. But even if they substantial, still - they have to start small. It will come, give it time.