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I experimented and rather than returning so many results, it returns the results from a few number of websites and tries to rank in on a confidence level from that smaller subset.
I made a 'search engine' for fun
foobub.com
I think we've just gotten so used to Google and its millions of results; I wondered, what would happen if I took that all away and presented only just a small handful of results?
The website isn't meant to be used for any real utility. What I wanted to demonstrate was just an alternate way to look at search. I think we've just gotten so used to Google and its millions of results; I wondered, what would happen if I took that all away and presented only just a small handful of results?
If so, I can't really complain. 95% of my searches are followed by "wiki" normally so I can get wikipedia first.
I don't hate it!
Neat. So it just searches wikipedia? If so, I can't really complain. 95% of my searches are followed by "wiki" normally so I can get wikipedia first.
Try putting in a coding question and Stackoverflow will show: http://foobub.com/?s=python+xrange+vs+range
If you put in a random question, yahoo answers will probably appear: http://foobub.com/?s=why+does+sweat+smell+so+bad
Wikipedia just generally comes up first as the way it's weighted. It answers and provides knowledge for most queries.
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