Great idea, awful UI
What makes you find the user interface awful?
it is litterally a search website with a text box for a search term and a button to do the search.
A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
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Re: A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
#12Great idea, awful UI
How so? It's intuitive and super fast. I whish there were more websites with such a simple UI.
Some people like a flashy UI, the modern look is important for them. It's ok to have aesthetic preferences, let's not pretend we don't all have them.
In the end, it's a niche search engine I've made, the intended audience is the long tail. It just isn't for everyone, and if it was for everyone, it probably would be lesser for it.
Re: A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
#13As everything in life flows in cycle, I predict the search engine that will de-throne Google will be like Google when it started - a simple variation of page rank. No smarts, no bubble, no signals decided by over fitting to a biased engineer preference.
I wouldn't say the existence of this page proves your prediction right (as it's not dethroning Google anytime soon).
It's easy to forget that the goal of Google isn't to provide a useful search engine (at least not anymore), but the search engine is a by product of them wanting to show ads.
Re: A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
#14Yeah so this is my project. It's very much a work in progress, but occasionally I think it works remarkably well for something I cobbled together alone out of consumer hardware and home-made code :-)
Which software do you use to index the sites?
Re: A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
#15What we need now is a search engine that weeds out sites that have been SEO optimized for keyword density.
I’m tired of searching for “generic keyword” and getting a page with an extremely low signal to noise ratio written like this:
“Many people search for generic keyword. That is why you can find all about generic keyword here. In fact we specialize in generic keyword and slight alterations of generic keyword.”
It’s like Google stopped caring that people were gaming it.
Re: A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
#16Great idea, awful UI
Ironic comment, considering that this is a search engine to weed out sites with awful UIs. This gives us exactly what we need in a search UI - no more, no less - in a clean and intuitive way.
Re: A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
#17Yeah so this is my project. It's very much a work in progress, but occasionally I think it works remarkably well for something I cobbled together alone out of consumer hardware and home-made code :-)
Hi,
Interesting idea. Definitely see an overlap with eReader markets and looking at text only contents.
How does it work?
It ignores pages on which it detects frameworks for ui and ads or any javascript code at all?
Re: A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
#18I love this! I've been searching random words with no aim in particular and keep finding lots of interesting tiny personal webpages. It feels like the old web
Re: A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
#19Great idea, awful UI
Yeah the design could use some work. The search results are not compact - I only see 1 result without scrolling, not counting the related wikipedia link that apparently has no description.
I don't particularly like that it seems to be a column constrained to 550px width, instead of being responsive and taking advantage of greater widths.
to the author of the site, if you're not really into design/css, take a look at tailwindcss, it makes it fairly easy to produce a minimal amount of css that is responsive.
Re: A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design
#20See also: https://wiby.me/
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