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I love how this is a problem that a huge number of people have worked on for around 20 years and have thrown stupid amounts of money at and people just jump in and boldly proclaim that they have the answers that just popped into their mind. Peak HackerNews.
But not my idea - Googles from Brave is something to look into, don't know entirely how it works - but it's in this direction.
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I found the thought of adding a "yellowlist" funny, as some people are starting to find the use of "whitelist" and "blacklist" racist.
It would be more consistent to call it greenlist, yellowlist, redlist then.
Disclaimer: I work for Google, though far away from Search. Regardless of search engine design, there's HUGE money in SEO. Any successful search engine will be gamed. Do you have the developer power to go red-queen against all the large companies in the world?
Allow users to blacklist sites. Share blacklisted sites. Have the option of instead of hiding blacklisted sites entirely - show them in a different column. Have 4 different types of list. Whitelist - highest scoring Not listed - these websites are not ranked. Yellowlist - show but keep in a separate column Blacklist - don't show https://search.brave.com/help/goggles is interesting.
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I mean I used to have that but I seem to now. Did it move? This is 102.0. Edit: You can make a bookmark and add a keyword, but that doesn't help me use it as a search engine. It used to be you could just create one from the contextual menu, what is this convoluted process.
The steps I took were: 1. Go to kagi.com 2. Right-click on the search field and choose "Add a keyword for this search..." 3. Fill in the keyword (e.g. kagi, as I did) 4. Right click in the top url+search field, and choose "Add Kagi search" Now you can search via keyword, you can change to kagi while typing, and you can set the default search engine to kagi in the preferences.
Honestly, the easy part is building a search engine, like just document retrieval stuff and domain ranking, SEO-mitigation etc. Anyone can build a Google '98 and get it to work well, not that hard, doesn't require all too much hardware. I have done that and got one running out of my living room. The tricky part, if you want people to use your search engine for more than the novelty factor, and what most Google compet…
Disclaimer: I work for Google, though far away from Search. Regardless of search engine design, there's HUGE money in SEO. Any successful search engine will be gamed. Do you have the developer power to go red-queen against all the large companies in the world?
Disclaimer: I work for Google, though far away from Search. Regardless of search engine design, there's HUGE money in SEO. Any successful search engine will be gamed. Do you have the developer power to go red-queen against all the large companies in the world?
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Let's not forget they also have a very popular browser that itself collects and bundles back home a lot of usage infomation from most of its user base: https://www.ghacks.net/2021/03/16/wonder-about-the-data-goog...
I think this is a bit misleading. Chrome gets access to various data to enable various features -- for example to pass your location to the website (when you allow it to do so). Browsing history is used e.g. to power URL auto-completion. This doesn't mean that this data can be used to inform Google Search ranking. That would be very shady and potentially illegal. I work for Google, and even though I do not work speci…
This relates to the "how can they know how long I look at a web site for" asked above - if not specifically they do at least know the answer stochastically.
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99%+ of people wouldn't use this, they would just try the search engine, see that the results suck, then stop using it. It could be useful for power users, though.
20% to 40% of internet users use an adblocker depending on whose statistics you use.[1][2][3] SEO is basically another form of advertising, so evidence suggests to me that people would use something like this. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_blocking#:~:text=users [2] https://earthweb.com/how-many-people-use-ad-blockers/ [3] https://www.insiderintelligence.com/insights/ad-blocking
Disclaimer: I work for Google, though far away from Search. Regardless of search engine design, there's HUGE money in SEO. Any successful search engine will be gamed. Do you have the developer power to go red-queen against all the large companies in the world?
I think Google search is using the wrong approach. When I'm looking for e.g. a new camera, I want to use my network which I trust . E.g. I want to ask "what camera would HN recommend?" We should think more about how we can use trust as a basis for how we explore the internet.
See: http://getoutfoxed.com/node/46
Some approach like this could still work, but it’s incredibly hard to maintain/define the right “network”, and across different domains. (E.g. HN probably not so good a community for latest fashions or sports trivia)