This is not an ad BTW, I literally stumbled upon it a few minutes ago. From what I can gather, however, this is a [DIY-ish] search engine that solely searches on text (no other forms of media, such as, … idk hypertext maybe), which allows users to have more control over queries (like including and excluding terms). I suppose this would prune out most of the modern websites, but I guess some of y’all would prefer that option anyway. Has anyone else tried it out? I’m genuinely curious about more opinions on this
It’s nice to see new takes on search. I like their UI decisions, too, and rendering the results as a multi-column table is refreshing to me. I can see where it would be off-putting for many people, though. Will definitely be using this to some degree.
Yeah it’s in no way a replacement to more conventional search engines, but it’s a nice thing in itself
They don’t index Wikipedia. Why not?
Interesting because I just got Wikipedia as the first result for a query (“commander keen”)
Huh I didn’t notice that. That does sound a bit weird :/
The author has been active on news.ycombinator.com.
I morally support the endeavor, but unfortunately the search algo is trash.
I think it’s just a different beast. He writes:
It’s perhaps not the greatest at finding what you already knew was there. Instead it is designed to help you find some things you didn’t even know you were looking for.
If you are looking for facts you can trust, this is almost certainly the wrong tool. If you are looking for serendipity, you’re on the right track. When was the last time you just stumbled onto something interesting, by the way?
That may be exactly what I need when searching for some highly technical problem lol
Dig this a lot. Also, looks like they received a grant from FUTO last month.
