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Creating a thin, non-working wrapper around DuckDuckGo as a "hire me" ad, claiming it's a search engine and mentioning Google in the headline because it'll get more clicks.
Yes, I don’t know how that reached the frontpage. A failed 15 minute experiment from someone who has no clue what they are doing
So your "search engine" uses Google and DuckDuckGo to get results? and you are creating it because "Google sucks"? Am I missing something here?
Kagi does that, is a paid subscription and HN does praise it a lot.
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Google is fine unless you need something really specific, chatgpt is better at this point for a lot of queries because Google give you the most simple answer no matter how specific you got with your keywords. I still miss the ability to use "".
Quotes still work when there are good results. As far as I can tell all that has changed is a) dropping obviously bad duplicate results like Stack Overflow scrape dumps, and b) adding in more un-quoted results when there's a lack of good results for quoted. I personally haven't had any issues with quoting.
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Plugging https://search.marginalia.nu/
Yeah I ran that on like $5k worth of consumer hardware initially. The only caveat is that you want a lot of RAM, and since consumer machines are mostly limited to 128 GB, that's a bit of a hard limit on how much you can do. In terms of storage space and compute, it's relatively fine. I'm on a single ~$17k server now, probably utilizing about 20% of it's capacity.
Duckduckgo is now particularly riddled by AI spam. The top 5 summaries for lots of searches now begin with some variation of "In the fast-moving world of...". Utter shit. It'd be so easy to filter I wonder why they/Microsoft don't bother. Oh, wait...
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Yeah I ran that on like $5k worth of consumer hardware initially. The only caveat is that you want a lot of RAM, and since consumer machines are mostly limited to 128 GB, that's a bit of a hard limit on how much you can do. In terms of storage space and compute, it's relatively fine. I'm on a single ~$17k server now, probably utilizing about 20% of it's capacity.
Naive question: would lower-level language help here?
High level language with the ability to make downcalls to a low level language is probably a sane compromise.
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Yeah I think they are trying to get a search-results-only view without the ads etc. Perhaps they would like startpage.com?
startpage does have ads, it's just somebody else than google tracking you.
Please provide evidence for such a claim.
https://www.startpage.com/en/privacy-policy?t=device
"Our search result pages may include a small number of clearly labeled "sponsored links," which generate revenue and cover our operational costs. Those links are retrieved from platforms such as Google AdSense. In order to enable the prevention of click fraud, some non-identifying system information is shared, but because we never share personal information or information that could uniquely identify you, the ads we display are not connected to any individual user."
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Quotes still work when there are good results. As far as I can tell all that has changed is a) dropping obviously bad duplicate results like Stack Overflow scrape dumps, and b) adding in more un-quoted results when there's a lack of good results for quoted. I personally haven't had any issues with quoting.
Last time I investigated (many years ago), quoted Google searches only work in some countries. I don't know why. I dug that fact up from a Google help page somewhere.