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Re:Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world... by lucb1e on Saturday May 16, 2020 @09:36AM (#23203254)
The "About" information is, counter-intuitively, under "Settings":

> 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. [...] The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the earlier days of the internet.

Re:Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world... by btrettel on Saturday May 16, 2020 @02:07PM (#23205741)
That makes me think: Is there a search engine which removes pages with any ads or affiliate links? That might be the easiest way to remove the commercial pages.
Re:Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world... by lucb1e on Saturday May 16, 2020 @03:07PM (#23206244)
I was just thinking pages with external dependencies, in the spirit of the old web, but your idea sounds a lot more reasonable. Not sure if that exists, I'd be interested!