Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world's biggest websites?

Re:Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world... by chris_f on Saturday May 16, 2020 @11:56AM (#23204461)

If you are looking for a forum search, check out https://boardreader.com/.

I have a theory that web crawling alone is not the best way forward to find the most relevant results because of the volume of content continually being created, much of which is niche and sometimes dynamic.

Instead I believe linking together vertical search sources that have targeted information based on search intent will provide better results.

I created Runnaroo [0] for that purpose. If you search a programing question, it will pull traditional organic results from Google, but it will also directly query Stack Overflow for a deeper search.

[0] https://www.runnaroo.com

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Re:Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes the world... by scottlocklin on Sunday May 17, 2020 @11:00AM (#23212474)

This is really good!

https://www.runnaroo.com/search?term=J+apply+verb

versus google's completely useless:

https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&q=J+apply+verb&oq=...

Everyone else, get in here: this is top notch stuff.

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