Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
by packet_nerd on Monday July 15, 2019 @11:09AM
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Someone linked to an interesting site talking about how to make homemade hot sauce here on HNs. I partly read it and thought it was a great clean site and something I wanted to try. Later going back to find it again I literally spent hours searching, even though I'm pretty sure I remembered some of the exact phrases. For some reason recipe related search results are really really terrible on both Google and Bing.
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Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
by thinkalone on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:18PM
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Could you not find it again via the HN site search? https://hn.algolia.com/?query=%22hot%20sauce%22%20recipe&sor...
Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
by packet_nerd on Thursday July 18, 2019 @02:54PM
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This is awesome and helped me find it again! Thank you!
Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
by learnfromstory on Monday July 15, 2019 @11:42AM
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Sometimes sites get dropped from the results because they are malware hosts. It’s more likely to happen to small independent sites. They are also more likely to just pack it up and shut down their sites.
Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
by losvedir on Monday July 15, 2019 @02:05PM
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Yeah, this is why I still use and like myactivity.google.com, as creepy as it is. It's helped me re-find so many interesting half-remembered sites and videos and songs I'd previously come across.
Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
by rasz on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:12PM
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Why would you rely on google spying instead of your own browser history?
Re:To Break Google’s Monopoly on Search, Make Its Index Public
by entropicdrifter on Monday July 15, 2019 @03:53PM
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cross platform support, maybe?