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Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites

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Re: Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites

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Post by codetrotter »

lelanthran wrote: post #8
OuterVale wrote: post #6

Also 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.

> In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were personally interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages.

> […]

> The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet.

https://wiby.me/about/

Sounds to me like Wiby is more similar to Search My Site than what your comment makes it sound like.

Re: Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites

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Post by amanaplanacanal »

eviks wrote: post #28

No basics like typo-resistance? digiatl > No results found for digiatl.

In my imagination, I think I prefer a search engine which searches for what I ask, rather than one which tries to guess what I really want.

It's been so long since I had one that really worked that way that I might turn out to hate it though.

Re: Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites

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Post by eviks »

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #32
eviks wrote: post #28

No basics like typo-resistance? digiatl > No results found for digiatl.

In my imagination, I think I prefer a search engine which searches for what I ask, rather than one which tries to guess what I really want. It's been so long since I had one that really worked that way that I might turn out to hate it though.

Most of the search engines you encounter fail here (press Ctrl+F in your browser and make a typo), it's the web search that's different. Though even here it's easy to check without making relying only on imagination - how often do you add quotes for literals?

Re: Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites

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Post by 1dom »

amanaplanacanal wrote: post #32
eviks wrote: post #28

No basics like typo-resistance? digiatl > No results found for digiatl.

In my imagination, I think I prefer a search engine which searches for what I ask, rather than one which tries to guess what I really want. It's been so long since I had one that really worked that way that I might turn out to hate it though.

Best of both worlds:

> No results found for "digiatl". Did you mean to search for "digital" instead?

Re: Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites

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Post by 1dom »

lelanthran wrote: post #24
pjerem wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 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.

> That’s a pretty clever filter tbh. Sounds so evident that I’m amazed nobody thought of it before. I did. I posted it on HN as a comment. It was a very popular (by my standards) comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40438288 The thread was interesting, with a lot of people posting rebuttals for why such a scheme would obviously not work. Equally obviously, someone else thought it was a good idea and went and…

> Equally obviously, someone else thought it was a good idea and went and implemented it.

Maybe I misunderstood, but it's not obvious to me that someone read your idea, thought it was good, and then went to implement it.

https://github.com/searchmysite/searchmysite.net/graphs/code... looks like the bulk of the code was added 2 - 4 years ago.

Re: Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites

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Post by wonger_ »

brontosaurusrex wrote: post #25
rumgewieselt wrote: post #7

I love the simplecity of https://pagefind.app/

Interesting, is that a more complete variation of fuse.js? (Just pluged-in fuse.js into my static jekyll blog)

I think Pagefind is focused on the whole experience of searching pages, like with default UI widgets, easy page indexing, and handling larger sites. fuse.js seems to be a fuzzy-filter function on JS data, not handling the site integration.

Re: Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites

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Post by freetonik »

renegat0x0 wrote: post #22

Other sites: - https://nownownow.com/ - https://omg.lol/ - https://indieweb.org/ - https://ooh.directory/ - https://neocities.org/ - https://aboutideasnow.com/ - https://indieblog.page/ - https://wiby.me/ - https://80.style/ Generally I crawl the internet to find pages. The result is in https://github.com/rumca-js/Internet-Places-Database . Personal pages are tagged with "personal" tag.

Also https://minifeed.net/ which I maintain; soon reaching 1000 personal blogs indexed.

Re: Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites

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Post by p3rls »

_puk wrote: post #10
csprimer-in wrote: post #9

I 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..

So then definitionally not independent then because their funding comes from elsewhere
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