I thought this was going to be a search engine for things that are fun.
I made a 'search engine' for fun
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#62The simplicity of this makes it enjoyable. Great work!
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#63I did something a little bit similar when I made www.eaisy.com. I like a minimal interface.
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#64I did something a little bit similar when I made www.eaisy.com. I like a minimal interface.
That’s really nice. My only gripe is that I find the definition font really hard to read.
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#65The website isn't meant to be used for any real utility. What I wanted to demonstrate was just an alternate way to look at search. I think we've just gotten so used to Google and its millions of results; I wondered, what would happen if I took that all away and presented only just a small handful of results?
Except usually Google's top results are exactly what I'm looking for. It's when they're not that those millions of results come in handy - otherwise there are tons of things I'd never find.
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#66Neat. So it just searches wikipedia? If so, I can't really complain. 95% of my searches are followed by "wiki" normally so I can get wikipedia first.
Wikipedia, Yahoo Answers, Google Answers (lawl), Quora, Stackoverflow. Try putting in a coding question and Stackoverflow will show: http://foobub.com/?s=python+xrange+vs+range If you put in a random question, yahoo answers will probably appear: http://foobub.com/?s=why+does+sweat+smell+so+bad Wikipedia just generally comes up first as the way it's weighted. It answers and provides knowledge for most queries.
I searched for "ruby on rails" and it got me wiki and quora, but not stackoverflow, which I would expect. See: http://foobub.com/?s=ruby+on+rails
Also, searching for "stackoverflow" gives unexpected results: http://foobub.com/?s=stackoverflow
Otherwise, surprisingly useful for something so simple. If you could tone down/up result sources and it had more (e.g. show me nothing from yahoo answers, more from stackoverflow), i would concievably use this instead of the goog for most things.
Like many people most of my googles are "wiki blah"
Good job!
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#67I thought this was going to be a search engine for things that are fun.
That'd be interesting. Maybe scrape twitter/facebook/etc for stuff correlated with "fun" and related words?
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Try open sourcing it before it gets unshitty. I'm trying it myself, just putting things out there and saying "to hell with it" because, ultimately, unshitifying things is Zeno's paradox kind of work; you're never really done. And, really, it's probably better than you think anyway.
Which of Zeno's paradoxes are you alluding to? I can't find any that fits the analogy. (i.e. never-ending work due to perfectionism)
I think he's referring to the discrete-motion paradox - that you can never reach the other side of the room because you must first go halfway, and before that you must first go 1/4 of the way, and before that...
It's not the greatest analogy in the world, but it sort of works in that it illustrates the fractal-like nature of bug-squashing.
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My site does not SEO well. If it's really confident about a result, it'll only give 1 or 2 results. i.e. http://foobub.com/?s=cats If it's kinda confused, it gives multiple results and ranks the site by most likely: http://foobub.com/?s=what%20is%20the%20answer%20to%20life%20... If it has no what you're doing, it'll search it on Google for you: http://foobub.com/?s=foobub My website is not yet self-aware. No need to…
It is unfortunate that doing so takes you away from the site (I imagine the basic use case right now is to type in a bunch of queries to see what it displays.) Ideally, it would show Google search results in an iframe, although I imagine that is against their TOS. Maybe just linking to Google search results would be a better experience.
Or you can use a similar deal to what duckduckgo does.