In PG's Frighteningly Ambitious Startup Ideas essay he talks at length about building a new kind of search engine. I was curious, who is working on this angle and makes your search engine innovative?
Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
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Re: Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
#2I only see Gabriel Weinberg's DuckDuckGo : http://ddg.gg
Re: Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
#3Privacy, access to different engines (when there is an API), reactive search (refine your search within the results).
http://kligl.com
Re: Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
#4I only see Gabriel Weinberg's DuckDuckGo : http://ddg.gg
That's not a new kind of search engine, it is a frontend for bing that can be used without the shame of having to say you use bing.
As far as I know, nobody is building a new kind of search engines, although I'd guess that a new kind of search engine won't really look like a search engine at first.
Re: Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
#5I dont use it, but Blekko had some interesting ideas with slashtags
Re: Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
#6I didn't write a search engine of any kind, I wrote a search front-end of sorts which redirects you to actual search engines (or Wikipedia if your query is an exact article title match). It doesn't handle not-ASCII text very well and there are some other bugs I should iron out and sometimes Heroku is down (hosted for free so I shouldn't complain) but it works well enough for me 99% of the time so I'm not actively working on it.
Re: Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
#7I only see Gabriel Weinberg's DuckDuckGo : http://ddg.gg
That's not a new kind of search engine, it is a frontend for bing that can be used without the shame of having to say you use bing. As far as I know, nobody is building a new kind of search engines, although I'd guess that a new kind of search engine won't really look like a search engine at first.
That is an interesting claim about DDG being a wrapper for bing. Could you back it up with citations please?
Re: Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not a new kind of search engine, it is a frontend for bing that can be used without the shame of having to say you use bing. As far as I know, nobody is building a new kind of search engines, although I'd guess that a new kind of search engine won't really look like a search engine at first.
That is an interesting claim about DDG being a wrapper for bing. Could you back it up with citations please?
I thought it was common knowledge that DDG uses Bing and a few other sources, except Google. The difference is that they don't track the users in any way and they don't put ads on the page. The fact that it uses Bing is why relevancy is not very good on DDG, though.
https://www.ixquick.com is also another alternative to DDG, doing much of the same thing.
Re: Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
#9I only see Gabriel Weinberg's DuckDuckGo : http://ddg.gg
That's not a new kind of search engine, it is a frontend for bing that can be used without the shame of having to say you use bing. As far as I know, nobody is building a new kind of search engines, although I'd guess that a new kind of search engine won't really look like a search engine at first.
I think DDG is best considered a search broker, it federates the queries out to other engines, like bing, or others under query syntax control, and I believe they are also crawling some or their own content, although that's mostly beyond any individuals capability at this point because the internet has become quite large. The broker also merges federation sources, however it isn't a search engine in the traditional sense because the indexes (posting lists) are in google, bing, lucene etc.
* edited for autocorrect errors
Re: Ask HN: Who is building a new kind of search engine?
#10I only see Gabriel Weinberg's DuckDuckGo : http://ddg.gg
That's not a new kind of search engine, it is a frontend for bing that can be used without the shame of having to say you use bing. As far as I know, nobody is building a new kind of search engines, although I'd guess that a new kind of search engine won't really look like a search engine at first.
ddg doesn't just use bing, it uses a multitude of sources. http://help.duckduckgo.com/customer/portal/articles/216399-s...