[HN Gopher] Teclis - Non-commercial web search
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Teclis - Non-commercial web search
Author : samcrawford
Score : 60 points
Date : 2022-03-23 20:38 UTC (2 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (teclis.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (teclis.com)
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| orthecreedence wrote:
| This is a really cool concept. Reminds me of the old(er) days
| when the web was a bit quieter and there wasn't an entire
| apparatus designed to steal your attention and focus.
|
| This seems like a really good way to do research as well: people
| offering information without the expectation of getting paid for
| it.
| u2077 wrote:
| Bookmarked! I found https://c3js.org/ which is exactly what I
| want for my personal project. I also found
| https://github.com/javascriptdata/danfojs which looks interesting
| as well. All within 2 searches.
| sixhobbits wrote:
| Love the idea. The first few things I searched had very few
| results, and when I got into more 'mainstream' topics, I was
| surprised to still see Quora et al in the results (I get a "7"
| flag on my uBlock icon when I visit I Quora page so I'm not quite
| sure how that ties in the with '5' threshold mentioned on the
| homepage).
| freediver wrote:
| The number can vary greatly based on browser, other extensions
| and location accessed.
| weinzierl wrote:
| First page results are interesting, paging to the second page
| gives me a:
|
| "A query would help :-)"
|
| One thing I noticed playing with Teclis is that it gives useful
| results for _' A vs B'_ queries. I don't know a single other
| search engine that still delivers remotely useful results for
| this type of query.
| metadat wrote:
| The results seem crappy to me, teclis found what I wanted zero
| percent of the time.
|
| Hopefully they can keep iterating and improving this; a new
| entrant to Search is always welcome!
|
| Because we _desperately_ need something better and more useful
| than Goggle. It 'll take a paradigm shift, for sure.
| agencies wrote:
| What were your failed searches?
| SahAssar wrote:
| Does this also exclude wikipedia? One of the first queries I
| usually try on search is literally "test", and I usually expect a
| wikipedia article for testing (either as an assessment or a
| scientific test or a programatic test) on page 1 or 2, but here
| there was none.
| paxys wrote:
| > The way detection works is we count the number of uBO blocked
| requests on the page, and if too many (threshold is set to 5), we
| kick it out, leaving only "clean" pages in the index.
|
| I'm genuinely surprised there were _any_ pages left to crawl.
|
| Unfortunately this also kicks out genuinely useful blogs and
| other pages that are otherwise helpful but happen to be using a
| platform or framework that makes a few block-worthy requests.
|
| I can't figure out if all of Wikipedia is in the removed set or
| just ranked too low to show up in results. On the browser, the
| site seems clean.
| zitterbewegung wrote:
| Doesn't work when I try to search for 14.2 MacBook Pro reviews .
| Gave me some links to 2018 MacBooks . Might be the ublock filter.
| jron wrote:
| Review sites are littered with advertising likely preventing
| any results from being indexed. It also doesn't help that most
| reviews are now in the form of video.
| rpastuszak wrote:
| Hm...
|
| https://imgur.com/a/BToBnun
| dbrereton wrote:
| 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://millionshort.com/ (Ignore the first million results
| from Google)
| fernly wrote:
| https://andisearch.com/
| fxtentacle wrote:
| Yay! Finally a good alternative search index :)
|
| Plus I'm impressed that kagi.com teclis.com and the Orion browser
| is all the same guy ^^
|
| EDIT: And "Kagi was created in 2018 and is running on tight
| budget, bootstrapped by the founder's funds from the previous
| exit. "
| hrgiger wrote:
| * Fun Challenge Find a query that has only one result in Teclis!
| Then read that page.
|
| I think found one but failed to read that (which?) page.
|
| http://teclis.com/search?q=sysadmin+horror+stories
| freediver wrote:
| Try http://teclis.com/search?q=%28sysadmin+horror+stories%29
| for more results (semantic search)
| hrgiger wrote:
| Thanks its worked
| freediver wrote:
| Hey all - creator here. It looks like next page of results does
| not work currently because wrong query param (should be "q"
| instead of "topics"). Easy enough to manually change if you need
| it.
|
| As a few of you noticed, narrow searches do not work very well
| because this is not a general web search engine and has a tiny
| index compared to Google. Use Teclis to discover more about a
| broader topic you are interested in and to discover writing from
| 'clean' websites on the web.
|
| Looking forward to feedback to improve!
| jron wrote:
| Thanks for making Kagi! I hope you and your team can figure out
| a way to make a flat monthly fee feasible so I can continue
| using the site!
| ______-_-______ wrote:
| Fun bug, searching for the letter e crashes the site
|
| http://teclis.com/search?q=e
| forgotpwd16 wrote:
| Or any other single character query.
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