This kind of projects are really good for finding interesting blogs and obscure sites.
My go to choice is https://marginalia-search.com/
Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites
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#12I love the simplecity of https://pagefind.app/
This is what I’m using with my Astro personal blog. It’s awesome.
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#13Great to see this.
Ironically, given Google's stronghold over the past decade, I strongly feel that one of the big winners in the AI space is going to be the backend search engine.
Modern web search has become so polluted, with many tricks to get to the front page of Google that a lot (most?) of the good content is lost.
Now that many of the big models are capable of calling out to the web, this bloat is now appearing in AI search. A proper data first engine, without ads, less focus on presentation, and more on structured data is what is needed.
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#14Also worth a mention is Wiby. "The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet." It's main indexing requirements are: - "Pages must be simple in design. Simple HTML, non-commerical sites are preferred." - "Pages should not use much scripts/css for cosmetic effect. Some might squeak through." - "Don't use ads that are intrusive (such as ads that appear overtop of content…
This is most definitely not the same thing. The indexing requirements are not "This site must be an independent or personal site" , it's "This site must lean towards being a plain HTTP document" . The Search My Site, from what I can tell, has the goal of surfacing personal/independent websites, while Wiby has the goal of surfacing minimally styled documents. Two different goals.
I wonder if this is why they said "worth a mention" rather than "the same thing".
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#15Also Marginalia, [1] featured many times on HN previously. [2,3]
[1]: https://marginalia-search.com/
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#16I fail to understand the complexity of it, can you help me understand how is it different from other search engines ? Thanks in advance !
Sites are ranked higher when they have no ads. Fully open source. That's a good starting point..
> Sites are ranked higher when they have no ads.
That’s a pretty clever filter tbh. Sounds so evident that I’m amazed nobody thought of it before.
I’d love Kagi to have such an option.
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#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is most definitely not the same thing. The indexing requirements are not "This site must be an independent or personal site" , it's "This site must lean towards being a plain HTTP document" . The Search My Site, from what I can tell, has the goal of surfacing personal/independent websites, while Wiby has the goal of surfacing minimally styled documents. Two different goals.
I wonder if this is why they said "worth a mention" rather than "the same thing".
I dunno; something is worth a mention if it's in the same category being discussed. Wiby most certainly isn't.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I dunno; something is worth a mention if it's in the same category being discussed. Wiby most certainly isn't.
"alternative search engines"?
The title says, as of writing,
for personal and independent websites
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#20Also worth a mention is Wiby. "The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet." It's main indexing requirements are: - "Pages must be simple in design. Simple HTML, non-commerical sites are preferred." - "Pages should not use much scripts/css for cosmetic effect. Some might squeak through." - "Don't use ads that are intrusive (such as ads that appear overtop of content…
This is most definitely not the same thing. The indexing requirements are not "This site must be an independent or personal site" , it's "This site must lean towards being a plain HTTP document" . The Search My Site, from what I can tell, has the goal of surfacing personal/independent websites, while Wiby has the goal of surfacing minimally styled documents. Two different goals.
And that is ok. It is still contextually relevant to some people and a nice project to boost.