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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 slyall » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 10:04 PM UTC

taxonomyman wrote: post #30

wonderwhy wrote: post #27

What is the ranking used for the top million sites? A search result for "Australia" returns as the top result http://australia.gov.au , which Alexa ranks as 20,615 globally. Actually, a lot of the queries I tried returned Australian sites. http://millionshort.com/search.php?q=australia&remove=10... http://millionshort.com/search.php?q=somalia&remove=1000... -- another Australian site.

Right now the filtering is not 100% working for non .com, .net, .org, .co.uk domains. So, .gov.au isn't being properly filtered yet. Soon.

The Public Suffix list http://publicsuffix.org/ maintains a list of domains you need to filter on.

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

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Post by wyck » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 10:06 PM UTC

This is an incredible breath of fresh air, what an odd thing to say.

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

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Post by mayneack » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 10:07 PM UTC

mathetic wrote: post #58

If this becomes popular, at some point results would disappear since unpopular sites will be pushed into the first million.

At some point, you wouldn't even be able to search for millionshort.

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

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Post by tomelders » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 10:08 PM UTC

Should I be depressed that I'm the top hit for my own name?

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

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Post by Alexandervn » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 10:09 PM UTC

scoot wrote: post #113

It's amusing to see all the SEO "experts" that don't make it into the top million: http://millionshort.com/search.php?q=seo&remove=1000k

It removes the top million in general, not per query.

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

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Post by afhof » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 10:10 PM UTC

nostromo wrote: post #102

It's interesting to see popularity used as an inverse corollary with quality. Imagine a TV that skipped the most popular programming (goodbye American Idol), or a radio station that only plays non-hits. Of course, there are great websites out there that are very popular (Wikipedia, NYTimes/WSJ, StackOverflow). I'd love to see a search engine with a better signal for quality than non-popularity (this search engine), o…

You have to be careful with that idea since it can still lead to poor quality. My campus's radio station (WREK Atlanta) seems to play just weird music for the sake of being weird. They never play popular music, but they rarely play any good music either.

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

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Post by garraeth » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 10:11 PM UTC

I love this! And am totally going to use it. Removing the top "thousand sites" removes pretty much all the sites I WISH I could have filtered from my Google results anyhow (ehow, w3schools, etc).

One request: please keep the search text in the form field after clicking "search". Just so users can search the same thing multiple times with different values in the "Remove the top" drop-down.

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

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Post by thorin_2 » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 10:12 PM UTC

Very interesting. I was pleased with the results and have already added this site to my Chrome bookmark bar, right between my Google search and Hacker News icons.

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

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Post by kevinrpope » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 10:14 PM UTC

hybrid11 wrote: post #130

This is a cool search engine for discovery, but it defeats the purpose when you are looking for a location. Do a search for "facebook", you will not get any result that links you to facebook.com .

I've seen people do this a few times, and don't understand why they do it (Google 'facebook' or 'twitter' and then click the link to get to the site instead of typing 'facebook.com' or 'twitter.com' into the address bar). Can you explain why? I'm truly curious.

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

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Post by lubujackson » Mon, Apr 30, 2012, 10:23 PM UTC

mayneack wrote: post #128

nostromo wrote: post #102

It's interesting to see popularity used as an inverse corollary with quality. Imagine a TV that skipped the most popular programming (goodbye American Idol), or a radio station that only plays non-hits. Of course, there are great websites out there that are very popular (Wikipedia, NYTimes/WSJ, StackOverflow). I'd love to see a search engine with a better signal for quality than non-popularity (this search engine), o…

Should be popular with hipsters.

Not any more - I've heard of it.