And my favorite article on it: http://www.otherhand.org/home-page/search-and-rescue/the-hun...
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But thank goodness for the Internet Archive! (FWIW, I've donated several times, it has helped me out so many times)
The article of interest is here: https://web.archive.org/web/20170920090047/http://www.otherh...
Is there some more information about it? I found that it is done by https://www.wireservice.ca Is there a technical info?
I was wondering how big the index is. Because it may be just possible to serve the multi-gigabyte index with torrent. Then the update mechanism would serve only deltas. It could be then used locally. However index would probably have to be without content - so no snippets. I don't know if it would be useful that way.
It could use a comparison site. Side by side with Google for the same search. I would certainly want to use it this way for a while.
I think this is the way for the alternative search engine to somewhat succeed. Because I think it's almost impossible to compete with Google at being Google. Look at how Bing manages.
... is exactly the thing that I'm most worried about losing. Especially when I hear about all sorts of "adaptive" crap that learns about what I do and adjusts my daily feeds, search results etc. accordingly. It probably works great for most people, but I'm definitely not one of them and I want to opt out of the adaptiveness of modern Web. Most of the time there is no clear way of doing that.
I like that search site already.
> What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism, all else is publicity.
> Paul Fussell
Someone, quick - point Ukraine and the Baltic states to this article "The Tank is Dead": http://g2mil.com/Anti-armor.htm
"US and Baltic troops — and American airpower — would be unable to halt the advance of mechanized Russian units and would suffer heavy casualties in the process" (https://en.delfi.lt/lithuania/defence/russia-could-occupy-al...)
BTW, this was a study from Rand Corporation!
(fwiw, author appears to be a Rails developer)
From their about page:
Search engines like Google are indispensable, able to find answers to all of your technical questions; but along the way, the fun of web surfing was lost. In the early days of the web, pages were made primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about subjects they were interested in. Later on, the web became saturated with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages. Google isn't great at finding those gems, its focus is on finding answers to technical questions, and it works well. But finding things you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today are created using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic features in order to mask the lack of content available on them. Those pages contribute to the blandness of today's web.
The wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet.