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Re: Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

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Post by taxonomyman » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 6:26 PM UTC

RegEx wrote: post #10

I like this idea a lot. I came across a nice, concise explanation of a Buffer overflow http://www.apolis.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=...

That's awesome. Maybe we're on to something..

Re: Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

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Post by taxonomyman » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 6:28 PM UTC

bicknergseng wrote: post #2

Turns out removing the top million results from a search for Google... still returns google. Or google.com.au to be precise. It's a cool idea, but I'm not sure it's working. I tried "american history" but it wouldn't return anything at all if I changed the "Remove the Top" dropdown.

Good feedback. Right now the filtering is not 100% working for non .com, .net, .org, .co.uk domains. Still working on it.

Re: Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

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Post by taxonomyman » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 6:32 PM UTC

anigbrowl wrote: post #9

rogerbinns wrote: post #6

It doesn't appear to work. I did a search for aspirin and the top match returned by this is #5 doing the same search with Google.

Top million sites, not top million results.

Correct. Top million sites.

Re: Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

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Post by duck » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 6:32 PM UTC

Great idea, although I think if you could explain it a bit better you could avoid the confusion like several of these comments are showing. I like how my Hacker Newsletter project shows up #2 when searching for Hacker News. :)

Re: Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

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Post by taxonomyman » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 6:33 PM UTC

tocomment wrote: post #5

I think remove results with my search term in the domain name and this would be perfect! For example I searched for how to start a garden and I can guarantee that startagarden.com is junk. But indie see some useful advice from small blogs etc

How would you like to see this work?

Re: Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

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Post by Cushman » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 6:36 PM UTC

I'd be fascinated to see the kind of SEO that would go on if this took off.

"Bad news-- we're a top 100 hit for several of our main keywords. We'll have to change our URL scheme again."

Re: Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

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Post by chrislomax » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 6:37 PM UTC

Only a little thing, could do with maintaining query strings between pages. It lost my query string and returned no results when I changed the drop down without me noticing.

Re: Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

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Post by bo1024 » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 6:37 PM UTC

I'd really like to see randomization instead. Return results picked randomly from within the top 10 million or something.

Re: Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 6:39 PM UTC

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Re: Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

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Post by taxonomyman » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 6:39 PM UTC

bo1024 wrote: post #18

I'd really like to see randomization instead. Return results picked randomly from within the top 10 million or something.

Randomization is a good idea. Give everyone a fair change kind of thing maybe? reply