"Welcome to mwmbl, the free, open-source and non-profit search engine. This website requires you to support/enable scripts." JSON results, no Javascript https://api.mwmbl.org/?search=search+the+web+without+javascr...
Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine
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Re: Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine
#122Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
That's only half of it. It's a question of fidelity. If I am genuinely interested in reading about the latest celebrity gossip or a local crime story, ad tech sites with videos and irritating things flying across the screen is actually what I'm looking for.
I strongly believe the smartest interfaces have the right fidelity to empower the user to effectively control the tool.
These parameters need to have the right dimensionality, faceting and perimeters to be expressive in this way.
I know you've got your own semi famous search engine and I express these ideas with that known
Re: Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine
#123Earlier quoted context omitted.
Welsh has the unfortunate combination of being unfamiliar to most English speakers, and not exotic enough to score diversity points.
On that topic I love the Welsh-English encounter of civil servants thinking they understood each other[0] [0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7702913.stm
Heh, I look forward to the future version of "en tant que modèle linguistique, je ne peux pas traduire ce texte" or in this specific case "fel model iaith, ni allaf gyfieithu'r testun hwnnw"
Re: Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine
#124White screen, no content, 30 errors in the console. Firefox 50.1 @Ubuntu
Too much JS for one page... :-|
Re: Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine
#125Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's pronounced mumble. An explanation is at the very bottom of the github Readme, quoting: > How do you pronounce "mwmbl"? > Like "mumble". I live in Mumbles, which is spelt "Mwmbwls" in Welsh. But the intended meaning is "to mumble", as in "don't search, just mwmbl!"
Marketing 101: don’t try to be clever with your brand name :)
Philosophy 101: Think deeply. Use reasoning. Things depend on other things.
The marketing claim above is so far from universal truth. Choosing a "clever" versus a straightforward brand name often depends on the brand strategy, target audience, and market conditions.
But, sorry, for this example, I personally think the current brand name is atrocious.
Re: Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine
#126OK, the obvious question: Why go with an unpronounceable name? I mean, great that it was made, but I can't even tell people I'm using... mwumble? But it's spelled em-doubleyou-em-bee-el dot org.
It's pronounced mumble. An explanation is at the very bottom of the github Readme, quoting: > How do you pronounce "mwmbl"? > Like "mumble". I live in Mumbles, which is spelt "Mwmbwls" in Welsh. But the intended meaning is "to mumble", as in "don't search, just mwmbl!"
>I live in Mumbles, which is spelt "Mwmbwls" in Welsh.
Ah Welsh, the golden standard of phonetic spelling and easy pronunciation!
In other words, one needs a manual just to learn how to pronounce the name of that thing.
Off to a great start, aren't we?
>An explanation is at the very bottom of the github Readme
AKA the first place anyone visiting the website would look at. NOT.
Did writing "pronounced Mumble" on the landing page hurt puppies or something?
>"don't search, just mumble!"
I think half of the country is already doing that when it comes to fact-checking, and they certainly don't need a search engine for that.
And here I was thinking GIMP was a horrible name.
Re: Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine
#127I was intrigued by the name and was very pleasantly surprised to confirm the Welsh influence when I clicked though. The creator lives very close to home for me.
Dal ati! We really need open source alternatives to Google.
Re: Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine
#128When I enter Kamil Galeev I get directed to a Nitter post by him (and only that), but when I enter Kamil Kazani (which was the mentioned nickname of said Nitter post) I get returned nothing at all.
That seems to be because it's written kamilkazani, and automatically splitting such names is a hard problem