Show HN: No Trash Search
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Show HN: No Trash Search
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#2I built this website a couple of months ago because I was annoyed by how hard it was to find useful things on Google. As "Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories" [0] is currently #1 on the front page I figured I'd share this project again. I hope it's useful to some people.
'No Trash Search' is very focussed on STEM and not "for daily use". It's surprisingly good when you're looking for certain kinds of information. Under the hood it's little more than a programmable search engine [1] with a whitelist of ~120 sites.
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#3the github repo is just few html pages i dont see anh source code..
i wont trust this search engine...
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#4the github repo is just few html pages i dont see anh source code.. i wont trust this search engine...
Nothing should be in the repo. There is no source. Check author's link [1].
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#5the github repo is just few html pages i dont see anh source code.. i wont trust this search engine...
Glad you're interested in the source code!
As explained in my other comment, this website is a wrapper around google programmable search. The actual searching happens on Google servers, and I can see why people have problems with that. The code you see on the website is the same as the repo, though. It's actually hosted by GitHub! You can verify this by opening the web inspector in any browser or looking at the `.github.io` portion of the URL.
You can learn more about Programmable Search here: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/overview. NoTrashSearch uses the 'Programmable Search Element Control API', which is documented here: https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/element and can be used with very little code!
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#6Googled "Best smartphone 2021" which resulted in crappy result. Maybe I am missing what significant categories actually means?
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#7First test search "python random" - returned just what I would expect instead of multitude of low-quality blogs like Google Search does. +1 from me!
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#8I built this website a couple of months ago because I was annoyed by how hard it was to find useful things on Google. As "Google no longer producing high quality search results in significant categories" [0] is currently #1 on the front page I figured I'd share this project again. I hope it's useful to some people. 'No Trash Search' is very focussed on STEM and not "for daily use". It's surprisingly good when you're…
Hey I was looking for something like this. Thanks.
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#9Great job! How are the ads implemented and do they cover the costs? I'm thinking of building a similar search engine for a completely different domain. I am a bit concerned about paying for it though.
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#10Googled "Best smartphone 2021" which resulted in crappy result. Maybe I am missing what significant categories actually means?
(obviously: this is subjective, so what's significant to me may not be to you.)
Honestly I just created this search engine for myself to find things more easily while programming or studying (I study biology, cs and ai; and philosophy in my free time, so expect results the best results for queries related to those subjects). I think those subjects also appeal to the HN audience, that's why I shared it here. When I'm not doing those things, I just use Google or DDG because they have better results for day-to-day queries.
That being said, I'm definitely interested in helping improve other people's search as well (reason I'm posting at all), so let me know if you have suggestions for sites to add!