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Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by renegat0x0 »

farmdve wrote: post #69

While we are on the subject of search engines, which search engines still show you like blogs, forum posts and stuff like that? Most of the blogs for obscure projects or problems are no longer even discoverable.

That is exactly why I scrape internet. I maintain all found domains in github:

https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database

I wanted to have all links about amiga, or commodore, chiptune.

It is not a search engine. For now, it is only data.

Maybe this will help somebody, or somebody will be able to use this data better.

I have a demo app running on rpi. It may be immediately broken if top many ppl accessed it.

https://renegat0x0.ddns.net/apps/places

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by 123yawaworht456 »

ramenbytes wrote: post #80
farmdve wrote: post #69

While we are on the subject of search engines, which search engines still show you like blogs, forum posts and stuff like that? Most of the blogs for obscure projects or problems are no longer even discoverable.

Kagi. They actually have a filter setting to only show forum results. They have one for the "smallweb" as well. Also a "smallweb" landing page designed to help you discover niche creators like you mentioned. Here: https://kagi.com/smallweb/

this is cool as fuck

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by fp64 »

qwertox wrote: post #128
fp64 wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're supposed to get your information from big platforms exclusively, otherwise how would you be able to see all the nice ads and "curated activism"?

"Please don't use Hacker News for political or ideological battle. That tramples curiosity" [0] [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm sorry, I did not realize that complaining about big corporations using their monopoly was considered political and ideological now, but I suppose it makes sense. Please excuse my previous comment, I agree it's not helpful, and I should have resisted the urge to voice my frustration with the direction I see the internet heading

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by 1vuio0pswjnm7 »

farmdve wrote: post #69

While we are on the subject of search engines, which search engines still show you like blogs, forum posts and stuff like that? Most of the blogs for obscure projects or problems are no longer even discoverable.

How about providing an example of a blog for an obscure project or problem that is no longer discoverable.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by weberer »

secondary_op wrote: post #27
hilux wrote: post #10

22-May-2024 ... the day privacy (finally) died.

Presume that duckduckgo is not private or otherwise compromised. For example many things I search trough duckduckgo later that day showed up in my twitter/x.com algorithmic feed, coincidence ? don't think so.

There's also the likelyhood that the pages you landed on sent your info to their "ad partners"

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by marginalia_nu »

voidUpdate wrote: post #74

DDG relying on bing for doing searches is... strange to me. I feel like I've seen its own web crawler in my access logs

Most alternative search engines are backed by either Google or Bing. Some have their own indexes as well, but it's rare to see a fully independent search engine.

Re: DuckDuckGo was down

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Post by throwaway290 »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #127
hhh wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

because not that many people use search engines other than google

which is surprising given how unbearable google has gotten it's a bit like sticking to using windows in 2010

It's not surprising given how much better it is than everything else
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