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Re: Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine

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Post by remram »

robinduckett wrote: post #45
mdaniel wrote: post #15

I wondered if this approach would be feasible for a distributed crawler: https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl#crawling Also, your own posting appears to be missing from the index: https://mwmbl.org/?q=mwmbl+ycombinator (and, yes, another vote for changing the domain name; you can have a quirky project name, but if I can't remember the cat-walking-on-keyboard domain, I'm not going to use it)

I’m from Wales and it almost seems like a transliteration of the word “Mumble” - actual translation is “mwmial”

So not only is it based on an obscure word in Welsh, but it's not even spelled correctly?

Re: Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine

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Post by daoudc »

robinduckett wrote: post #45
mdaniel wrote: post #15

I wondered if this approach would be feasible for a distributed crawler: https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl#crawling Also, your own posting appears to be missing from the index: https://mwmbl.org/?q=mwmbl+ycombinator (and, yes, another vote for changing the domain name; you can have a quirky project name, but if I can't remember the cat-walking-on-keyboard domain, I'm not going to use it)

I’m from Wales and it almost seems like a transliteration of the word “Mumble” - actual translation is “mwmial”

Yeah, pretty much, I named it after Mumbles or Mwmbwls where I live, but it's also a play on the word mumble.

Re: Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine

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Post by daoudc »

marginalia_nu wrote: post #57
krishadi wrote: post #40

This and the other engines seem to implement all the components of crawling, indexing, and searching strung together. Is there a reason for this? Wouldn't an option of, let's say, crawling + indexing made available separately, where others could built a search algorithm on top of, or just the crawling as a service made available. Are there stuff like these already available? Or is it just not a viable option?

Crawling can be done collaboratively, but there's not a lot of point to doing this. Crawling is the cheap and easy part. As for the rest, in order to perform well, the indexer needs to be built specifically tailored to the what the search engine is doing. Often you're scrounging for places to cram in individual bits to encode some additional piece of information about the term. If a DBMS tries to support every use ca…

Thanks, Marginalia search was a big inspiration for this project!

Re: Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine

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Post by marginalia_nu »

Fnoord wrote: post #71
kristopolous wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Chatgpt is so much more useful for things that are specific and complex than Google is. Google used to be good at it but it's now utterly befuddled by specificity and returns such garbage that I had given up. But the form of "I'm doing this, I'm seeing this and I'm wondering if X is possible" chatgpt is solid on that - basically a personal stack overflow

Google got completely and utterly raped by world-wide SEO. We'll have to see how ChatGPT ages. Since the dataset is more controlled, I give it a fair chance.

Google's problem is with the conflict of interest inherent in their business model. It prevents them from doing what they need to do in order to decisively tackle the search engine spam problem they're struggling with.

It would be very easy to improve Google's search result quality by removing their promoted results, and then penalizing websites with ads and adtech.

Re: Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine

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Post by marginalia_nu »

tamimio wrote: post #79

I searched first test “best business banks in Canada” and it showed no results saying it couldn’t find any “We could not find anything for your search..”, I can also see two redundant lenses icons.

What sort of result would you expect for such a query?
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