I facechaired. You know, when facepalm is not enough?
I built a better Google. It was easy.
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Re: I built a better Google. It was easy.
#12Pretty obviously a troll, their blog tagline is "Blog of the The Greatest Person to Have Ever Lived"
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#13Although i don't personally think that this project (nor the way it was presented here) is worth much, we have to agree that we are now in a place where limiting search results is relevant and filtering content will be more and more important as years go by and the information continues to increase at this rate.
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#14So a worse duckduckgo.com then?
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#15So he made something like Blekko, but he used bing as the backend instead of his own backend. How did this hit the front page ?
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#16So, first I thought "Oh no, not another DuckduckGo!" Then the article's first line had Google misspelt as 'Gogle' and then there were a few paragraphs with too many biased assumptions and with more of marketing slogans revolved around the importance of 'you'..and so I thought it's a social network with a search engine integrated. But then, I thought "hey, isn't that what Google already does?"
And then I clicked the link, it's just a semi-polished front-end, with serif and sans-serif fonts mixed, that just builds-up queries for ONE particular search engine (Bing). Atleast, if there was an option to choose between any of the top 3 Search engine's, I would have been slightly impressed.
Honestly, this is a disappointment and the title is misleading.
It solves a very little problem. Anyway, I don't want this to be a 'hate-only' comment, so, I'll share what I know with the community, so far:
(Replace news.ycombinator.com with the site you want to search for)
1) If you want to search a specific site, then type in :
site:news.ycombinator.com
site:news.ycombinator.com -mongodb
3) If you are searching for a specific string within the results, then type:
site:news.ycombinator.com riak
You could also search for a particular term in double quotes to be included with your result:
site:news.ycombinator.com "paul graham"
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#18"Take a look at NeatSeek, and prepare to be amazed." You are right: I'm amazed by the amount of self deception and wishful thinking in this article. You missed the point so hard you hit yourself.
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#19A suggestion - As it stands right now, your title and blog is link-baity as it belittles the work of engineers at Google. Re-title your submission contextual search because you're searching within a silo or context of websites. The problem you're trying to solve is along the lines of millionshort.com in that you are trying to lessen the impact of over-optimization of results.
As for an explanation of the down-votes you're getting, I can only refer you to: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4962544
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#20This site takes the problem of the search filter bubble[1] and pushes it to the extreme. It might be useful for people who want to avoid, at any cost, political opinions that they disagree with. However, if you're trying to solve a hard problem that you don't know the answer to, is it reasonable to assume that you do happen to know what tiny subset of the web contains your unknown answer?