Teclis – Non-commercial web search • Hacker News Board

Re: Teclis – Non-commercial web search

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Post by ricardo81 » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 4:28 PM UTC

neya wrote: post #78

Does anyone know of a decent search engine that searches and shows results of only vintage type sites - you know, the ones built with the old school HTML tables or frontpage kind of stuff? Often, these are the most valuable in content, with less promotional bullshit like a random popup asking to signup for a newsletter or perhaps some dubious GDPR notice with all personal data collection toggles set to "off".

Try mojeek.com (disclaimer, I work there)

The index is 5bn+ pages and entirely independent as opposed to the Bing/Google offshoots.

With Google's algo tending to favour "mobile optimised" sites, I suspect a lot of older sites get buried.

Re: Teclis – Non-commercial web search

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Post by marginalia_nu » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 6:04 PM UTC

eek2121 wrote: post #57

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 w…

I use Personalized PageRank giving disproportionate voting power to a bunch of people whose entire identity is their passionate dislike for the commercial web. To get a really high rank in my search engine, you need to convince a those people to link to your site.

Re: Teclis – Non-commercial web search

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Post by Seirdy » Thu, Mar 24, 2022, 10:08 PM UTC

flarg wrote: post #69

FireInsight wrote: post #65

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I was thinking of making a small site showcasing indie search engines or small search engine projects ig

Wish someone would meta search these search engines

Searx and SearxNG support a few of these, but instances get blocked and unblocked left and right.

eTools is a metasearch engine that uses commercial APIs for its search providers, so it does not get blocked. However, each search is a bit expensive for eTools, so users might get blocked by eTools instead.