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Show HN: A search engine that values depth over popularity
Hey HN,
I'm excited to introduce Graphthem, a search engine designed to explore the deeper layers of knowledge rather than just surface-level popularity.
While many AI search engines simply summarize top N results, we've found this approach often misses the many good stuff that is buried deeper in the links and references.
Graphthem takes a different approach. we don't just look at the first few pages we find. We also dig into what those pages link to, so you get the whole story. This allows us to deliver answers that capture not just what's immediately visible, but also the foundational ideas and deeper insights that inform those results.
Here's a comparison between Perplexity and Graphthem:
Query 1: "most watched youtube videos?"
Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/most-watched-youtube-videos-1YVwcYm5TU.9Qdn4Xx_hwA https://www.perplexity.ai/search/most-watched-youtube-videos...
Graphthem: https://graphthem.com/search?uuid=7f0839a9-85ee-4f81-a5c9-cb4d964ae578 https://graphthem.com/search?uuid=7f0839a9-85ee-4f81-a5c9-cb...
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Query 2: "what is pagerank?"
Perplexity: https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-is-pagerank-ieJ.4iFqTqeDwIh6pzmPuw https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-is-pagerank-ieJ.4iFqTq...
Graphthem: https://graphthem.com/search?uuid=c689e9d1-d3d4-4d51-8602-00f1b95331ea https://graphthem.com/search?uuid=c689e9d1-d3d4-4d51-8602-00...
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Some related ideas I've explored before:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35826540 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35826540
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510949 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510949
I would love to hear your feedback. Please let us know how we can improve.
- arromatic 2y agoWhere does it fetch the results from at the first step ? Bing , Google or it's own index ?
- vignesh_warar 2y agoCurrently, it uses both Google and Bing, but I am planning to add a small index from curated pages from forums like HN and Reddit, similar to what I did before https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35826540 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35826540 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510949 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35510949
- jimkleiber 2y agoIt gave me an error after searching "Gandhi and Tolstoy relationship" and said to check the browser console. Then I tried to hit the back button and it seemed to create many many pages to go back thru.
- georgehill 2y agoI'm not sure why it did not work. I searched the same query, and it worked. https://graphthem.com/search?uuid=c7632e5c-efb7-4120-b72f-5b8dd56f27ca https://graphthem.com/search?uuid=c7632e5c-efb7-4120-b72f-5b...
- jimkleiber 2y agoWas iOS Safari, not sure if that matters. But glad to hear it worked for you, I'll take another look, as I was excited to play with it.