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Re: The next Google

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Post by taxonomyman »

Likely not the next Google but wanted to share: https://sanction.millionshort.com

SANCTION is an experimental search engine powered by the popular experimental search engine Million Short – an experiment within an experiment. (This is alpha and buggy!) With SANCTION you can choose to remove results from any Country you wish, for whatever reason.

Result removal is based on both the ccTLD and geographic location of where the page is hosted (a 1st degree connection). We have also provided the ability to remove results based on the ccTLD and location the scripts a particular page includes via script tags (a 2nd degree connection).

Re: The next Google

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Post by mmaunder »

Know how you’ll find the next Google? Same way those of us over 45 found this one.

A respected friend or colleague will tell you that the next Google just works better. That’s what made Google search win: it just worked better. It’s now I found out about it and probably how you did if you’re pushing 50.

We didn’t care about pagerank or know what it is. That came after we used it and wanted to know why it worked better - or we wanted to manipulate he results.

We didn’t read a blog post telling us what’s good.

We were using another search engine and Google arrived on the scene and it was just WAY better. I was using alltheweb. Friends were using other engines. In weeks, everyone smart and productive was using Google.

Google/Alphabet may be a large company now, but never forget how they started. They were just so good we couldn’t ignore them.

That’s how good the next Google will need to be.

Re: The next Google

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Post by LordDragonfang »

arecurrence wrote: post #116
ryandrake wrote: post #106

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4. How about an image search that... actually returns the URL of the raw image? Here's a dead simple use case that is just unnecessarily frustrating. As a user, I want a high res picture of a buffalo. So: a. I do an image search for "buffalo" and the results page contains thumbnails of buffalos. b. I click the first result, it's tagged with "nationalgeographic.com" so it's probably gonna be good. Instead of the image…

Alas, Getty sued that experience into oblivion https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/02/internet-rages-after...

It's amazing to me that Pinterest hasn't been sued for this, despite having much more blatant examples of copyright infringement that don't link back to the source.

Re: The next Google

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Post by notreallyserio »

Barrin92 wrote: post #45

I think 'more customization' which is a theme with a lot of these alternatives is a fundamental dead end. I don't know where this persistent myth comes from that people love choice and tinkering, because they clearly don't. There's a huge cost associated with having to make choices, and one feature of successful modern apps is that they're frictionless. That's why TikTok is so successful. There's no login, no user ch…

What counts as customization? I might agree that most people don't care to change font sizes or colors or even themes but they might want to be able to tell Google to never return results from a particular site. Is hiding results from a site customization? Is it the sort of customization that would overwhelm a user if they saw it as an option?

Re: The next Google

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Post by Ennea »

richardsocher wrote: post #292
Ennea wrote: post #257

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Too bad you.com does not work in Firefox with the "beacon" function disabled (beacon.enabled set to false in about:config).

Hi Ennea, Can you help me understand why you make this particular change in the config?

To be perfectly honest, I cannot even remember making that change, but also couldn't find any info on whether Firefox or some extension may have done this. I will leave it disabled, however, because its purpose seems to be analytics, and opting out of (at least some of) them this way seems like a good idea.

Since disabling it this way removes the `sendBeacon` function from existence, you should just be prepared to properly handle its absence.

Re: The next Google

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Post by amelius »

legohead wrote: post #98

I just went on a mini vacation to Vegas, and was thinking how nice it would be to just call up someone and ask for some simple advice. I did a bunch of online research before I booked things, but man was it painful. There are so many copy-cat blogs who just throw together a bunch of basic information with no real research done in order to get those clicks/adwords. For example: best hotel pool in vegas. Seems simple e…

The future is trust networks. Where you trust a number of friends, who trust other people, etc. and you can use a matrix of trust to retrieve review scores, etc.

Imagine trusting HN, visiting Amazon and getting all the reviews from other HN users ...

Re: The next Google

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Post by [deleted] »

SV_BubbleTime wrote: post #214
legohead wrote: post #98

I just went on a mini vacation to Vegas, and was thinking how nice it would be to just call up someone and ask for some simple advice. I did a bunch of online research before I booked things, but man was it painful. There are so many copy-cat blogs who just throw together a bunch of basic information with no real research done in order to get those clicks/adwords. For example: best hotel pool in vegas. Seems simple e…

> So, personally, I think the future will be actual human service. I love the idea. However… You have invented an influencer hellscape. Not to mention the complete subjectiveness of so many things.

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Re: The next Google

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Post by pooper »

smlacy wrote: post #109
trh0awayman wrote: post #101

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There used to be a search engine in the mid 2000s that was just like this. It was called ChaCha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChaCha_(search_engine)

See also Aardvark: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aardvark_(search_engine) Acquired by Google in 2010 and ...

Fifty million dollars would change my life. I would take a guaranteed fifty million dollars payout over one in ten chance to get a billion dollars.

What are the chances that I cumbents will stand by idly as the "next Google" just takes over? Best case I can think of is the incumbent imitates the upstart and becomes better.

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