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Re: Teclis – Non-commercial web search

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Post by dannywarner »

mountainriver wrote: post #49
dbrereton wrote: post #10

Lots of great new search engines popping up that search the rest of the web that Google tends to ignore. Other ones worth checking out include: - https://search.marginalia.nu/ (A non-commercial search engine) - https://wiby.me/ (Tends to have those really weird and cool indie sites) - https://searchmysite.net/ (An index of personal websites) - https://indieweb-search.jamesg.blog/ (Search IndieWeb websites) - https://…

Curious if anyone has recommendations for great enterprise search?

Algolia. It is used on here on the search bar on the end of the page.

Re: Teclis – Non-commercial web search

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Post by dannywarner »

chris_f wrote: post #42
fernly wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://andisearch.com/

Credit to them for trying some new things on the UI front, but it looks like the organic results are from Bing (like most other alt/privacy search engines). It would be interesting to learn more about how/if they plan to build their own index, or set themselves apart. IMO, Kagi and Brave search are the two best alternative general search engines right now. Runnaroo was pretty good as well ;-)

An additional thing of interest. The text of the results such as heading and summary on andisearch is not the same as the other search engines. I think it displays more of each web page's content from its index.

Re: Teclis – Non-commercial web search

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Post by freediver »

paxys wrote: post #8

> The way detection works is we count the number of uBO blocked requests on the page, and if too many (threshold is set to 5), we kick it out, leaving only "clean" pages in the index. I'm genuinely surprised there were any pages left to crawl. Unfortunately this also kicks out genuinely useful blogs and other pages that are otherwise helpful but happen to be using a platform or framework that makes a few block-worthy…

> I can't figure out if all of Wikipedia is in the removed set

Turns out it was filtered out by mistake, back now!

Re: Teclis – Non-commercial web search

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Post by weird-eye-issue »

I hate to say it but for "best laptop" I'd rather get a typical SEO affiliate result than a 4 year old article talking about why they think MacBooks from 10 years ago were the best laptop.

The fact is "best laptop" is what's called a commerical intent query where people are looking to make a purchase. They want recent results and recent products, not informational articles

Re: Teclis – Non-commercial web search

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Post by Seirdy »

chris_f wrote: post #42
fernly wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://andisearch.com/

Credit to them for trying some new things on the UI front, but it looks like the organic results are from Bing (like most other alt/privacy search engines). It would be interesting to learn more about how/if they plan to build their own index, or set themselves apart. IMO, Kagi and Brave search are the two best alternative general search engines right now. Runnaroo was pretty good as well ;-)

I think Mojeek is a better alternative "general" engine than Brave because Brave's ranking algorithm was optimized against Google SERPs (back when it was called Cliqz), making many SERPs too similar to Google's.

Kagi uses a mix of Teclis and other engines (claims to use Bing and Google) but the ability to adjust ranking yourself is its wild card. Neeva is similar, combining its own index with some ability to influence ranking.

But personally, I'm trying to reduce my use of "one engine to rule them all" and instead use specific engines for specific tasks they're good at.

Re: Teclis – Non-commercial web search

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Post by robmerki »

freediver wrote: post #44
robmerki wrote: post #38

This is such a fantastic search engine. Obviously not perfect, but the search results are information rather than blogspam/ads/etc. Breath of fresh air. Funnily enough I somehow ranked #1 for "ADHD" but I don't know what's particularly special about my landing page. Does your crawler look prioritize/crawl HN by any chance?

Not in particular, there is triple ranking system in place plus some heuristics and it decided to rank you #1. Nice to be there for a change, huh? :)

I don't feel worthy to be honest

Re: Teclis – Non-commercial web search

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Post by eek2121 »

dbrereton wrote: post #10

Lots of great new search engines popping up that search the rest of the web that Google tends to ignore. Other ones worth checking out include: - https://search.marginalia.nu/ (A non-commercial search engine) - https://wiby.me/ (Tends to have those really weird and cool indie sites) - https://searchmysite.net/ (An index of personal websites) - https://indieweb-search.jamesg.blog/ (Search IndieWeb websites) - https://…

Curious as to how these engines accept new sites into their ranks. A big problem most of us have had is spammy results outranking everything else by building large, fake networks of sites that boost each other's rankings via interlinking. Many of the higher end networks are undetectable, as they have legitimate content and never link to more than 1 other internal site (among a mix of external sites, some affiliated with still other networks).

Re: Teclis – Non-commercial web search

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Post by EamonnMR »

dbrereton wrote: post #10

Lots of great new search engines popping up that search the rest of the web that Google tends to ignore. Other ones worth checking out include: - https://search.marginalia.nu/ (A non-commercial search engine) - https://wiby.me/ (Tends to have those really weird and cool indie sites) - https://searchmysite.net/ (An index of personal websites) - https://indieweb-search.jamesg.blog/ (Search IndieWeb websites) - https://…

Wiby has been a great experience. I love being able to contribute sites to it too, to.

Re: Teclis – Non-commercial web search

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Post by smt88 »

dannywarner wrote: post #51
mountainriver wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Curious if anyone has recommendations for great enterprise search?

Algolia. It is used on here on the search bar on the end of the page.

It is insanely expensive though. I think all of your indexes are stored in RAM.
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