[HN Gopher] Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine
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Stract: Open-souce, non-profit search engine
Author : FLpxpyJ
Score : 55 points
Date : 2024-02-04 20:36 UTC (2 hours ago)
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| com wrote:
| Fast, feels clean and uncluttered to use and the search results
| are fairly high quality. I like the "optic" idea.
|
| After reading the about page, I'm not sure what the developers
| are trying to achieve? Perhaps a sort of alternative-Universe
| Google search funded by search-context AdWords?
| spaduf wrote:
| Really like the explore feature. It lets you put in a url and
| shows you similar sites. Very promising project. Love to see
| people actually thinking about what search would be rather than
| rehashing decades old ideas.
| gregw134 wrote:
| Wanted to say congrats on launching! I'm building a search engine
| myself, I can tell a lot of work went into this.
|
| I think the biggest thing you overlooked are page titles. When
| you issue a query it's a bit hard to quickly scan and judge what
| a site is about because the page titles are missing.
| vanous wrote:
| Congrats!
|
| I tried to search for a particular domain data but neither search
| nor the explore would have the domain listed. What's the process
| to get unlisted domains indexed?
| daniel_iversen wrote:
| awhh I can see DMOZ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMOZ) is no
| longer! That used to be the seed for crawling the internet I
| believe, for search engines.
| charcircuit wrote:
| >how many bits are in a byte
|
| I checked 11 pages and none of the results were relevant.
| buo wrote:
| I searched instead for "size byte bits", third result has the
| answer. It seems like the engine gives equal weight to all
| words in the search, so "are", "in" and "a" throw it off.
| kiwidrew wrote:
| excellent! I'm tired of search engines that optimize for
| natural language queries because the inevitable trade-off is
| that they become useless at keyword/exact queries.
| crotchfire wrote:
| Where does their crawl come from?
| kuratkull wrote:
| It's failing (completely wrong results) my goto query for testing
| search engines: "best sub 10 usd Linux single board computer" Try
| it out
| Levitating wrote:
| Damn Pine64 has some fun stuff happening.
|
| Also I noticed DuckDuckGo performed much better than Google
| with this benchmark.
| jqpabc123 wrote:
| _clearly labelled, contextual ads based on your current search
| query and a subscription option without ads_
|
| Perfect! This is the way the god of the internet intended search
| engines to work.
|
| But DuckDuckGo does the same and currently provides superior
| results based on a very brief test.
|
| So good luck with that.
| godzillabrennus wrote:
| DDG is amazing. To good to be viable I'm usually thinking.
| lastdong wrote:
| Optics are a great idea, something we don't see on other engines.
|
| Fully open source -`g''-
|
| Haven't dig in to see what's powering the search, I think DDG
| uses Bing
| Pufferbo wrote:
| Tried searching for Dota (the video game), and the game's website
| is buried by a bunch of SEO spam. It might not even have been
| crawled because it doesn't appear on the first or second page.
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