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I 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 qualit
by rickdeveloper 5y ago
I 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.
[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772136 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29772136
[1] http://programmablesearchengine.google.com http://programmablesearchengine.google.com
- SilasX 5y agoFYI, I think this is just the case where you should prefix the submission title with “Show HN:”. Can mods update it so it shows with the others? @dang? https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/show https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html
- BlueTemplar 5y agoWhile I can understand the appeal, restricting your search engine to only ~120 websites out of hundreds of millions (?) is basically giving up on the Web. (BTW, any good search engines these days that aren't indirectly using Google or Bing ?)
- narrator 5y agoThere's http://yandex.com http://yandex.com . It's great if you want to search controversial subject matter and controversial results that Google wouldn't give you. The reverse image search is also amazing.
- quocanh 5y agoWhich results are different than Google's?
- jhugo 5y agoMost. Yandex is great, especially for programming searches. It generally ranks GitHub, Stack Overflow and other content-heavy sites highly. Google has been taken over by weird clones of GitHub and SO lately, Yandex has no such trash. It completely boggles my mind that the useless GitHub and SO clones rank first page on Google. Do engineers at Google not use their own product?
- hiptobecubic 5y agoFrankly, no. It's kind of a running joke that you can't Google any of your problems at Google because everything is internal.
- skinkestek 5y agoRegarding stackoverflow there is a fair chance they can congratulate themselves: If I am right they played stupid games and won stupid prizes. More specifically they have allowed rampant deletionism for years so while I am fairly certain the questions and answers originated on Stack Overflow it wouldn't surprise me if a good number of of those aren't visible on Stack Overflow anymore which would explain why they rank higher in Google. Done right this would actually be a service. Sadly some of them seems to mix together various questions and answers in the same page to generate text matches for unusual queries.
- ramphastidae 5y ago
- throwawayboise 5y ago> Under the hood it's little more than a programmable search engine [1] with a whitelist of ~120 sites So back to what web search was in the 1990s, roughly: an index from a curated selection of sites.
- DantesKite 5y agoHey I was looking for something like this. Thanks.
- rdiddly 5y ago120 sites is pretty hilarious and sad. "Here you go, the worthwhile part of the internet!"
- dataflow 5y agoYou might want to add cppreference.com to your list of programming sites.
- lionkor 5y agoSeems to be in there now :)