[HN Gopher] Teclis - Non-commercial web search ___________________________________________________________________ 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) | [deleted] | 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. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-03-23 23:00 UTC)