Folks, please go and use this gentleman's home grown search engine. He literally runs it out of his basement. Mikkel is on Matrix as well, and you can message him.
Wikipedia Data Makes Better News Search: Stract Gossip Machine
Lately I've been spending a lot of time building my own tools as the state of search gets more disappointing. My newest effort is called Stract Gossip Machine. SGM uses historical audience interest as represented by Wikipedia page views to identify days with a higher likelihood of having relevant news about a topic, then creates…
I have been working on this since yesterday afternoon. I'm not entirely satisfied with it but you're welcome to play with it.
Temporal Topic Explorer uses Stract's search API and URL patterns to browse news topics by month. One day at a time.
It's an interesting way to explore topics that cover many months (try coronavirus in April 2020) or shock events that caused a big shift (try King Charles in September 2022).
Hey y'all! I've added a new tool to Stract Search, my implementation of the #Stract search engine. StractSearch is free and free-of-advertising at https://searchtweaks.com/stract/ .
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On the plus side for #stract, when I searched for info on Ikea air filters, it gave me this, https://dynomight.net/ikea-purifier/, which is exactly the Internet I miss from 20 years ago.
🔎 This Guy Has Built an Open Source Search Engine as an Alternative to Google in His Spare Time
— 404media.co
“Most of our searches go through the same handful of entities (Google, Bing, Yandex),” Denker told me. “Even other search engines such as DuckDuckGo use Bing for their results. I found it very weird that there essentially is no way to browse the web in an open manner. So that's what I am trying to build.”
#Stract is a new, #opensource, #nonprofit#search engine. It has a lot of interesting functions. For example, users can exclude known copycat sites from search queries, focus on indie blogs, or do fediverse search only.
They support DDG-like !bangs and have a feature called Optics to customize search results, e.g. "Limit your searches to blogs, indieweb, educational content etc."
Ne du, so was wie #DuckDuckGo, #StartPage & #Ecosia liefern Daten ihrer Crawler wie #Bing (M$) und/oder #Google. Pseudonymisiert ist nicht anonym, denn die sind vertraglich dazu verpflichtet.
🧵 …danke @narek für das Entwickeln vom Gugle #App für Android, das ua #SearX / #SearXNG* Suchmaschinen unterstützt und über @fdroidorg auf dem #Android installierbar ist. Das #Gugle App soll später auch noch die #Stract* Suchmaschine unterstützen.