I Miss the Old Internet

Re:I Miss the Old Internet by PhasmaFelis on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @11:06PM (#21405378)

You may be interested in https://millionshort.com, a search engine that lets you filter out results from the top 100 to 1,000,000 (your choice) sites. Depending on the search and the number you pick, it'll give you lots of personal websites and small forums.

I also just found https://boardreader.com, which searches forums exclusively.

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by rchaud on Thursday October 31, 2019 @01:46PM (#21411568)

Yup, I was about to suggest this before noticing that it had already been said.

It is remarkable how many of the top domain that show up on search (amazon, ebay, others) have little or nothing to do with long-tail search terms.

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by Dissley on Thursday October 31, 2019 @10:30AM (#21409190)

millionshort.com looks promising! I will give it a try. Do you know what engine they use? Google or Bing, or something completly different?

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Re:I Miss the Old Internet by PhasmaFelis on Thursday October 31, 2019 @12:52PM (#21410860)

I had to dig for it, but apparently they use "a Microsoft Bing API and some in-house information." https://www.networkworld.com/article/2188911/million-short-s...

I should edit the Wikipedia page; it makes it sound like they rolled their own engine and crawler, which seemed pretty unlikely.

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