Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine

Re:Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine by thewarrior on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @01:41PM (#23772222)

It seems that its using Google search results as raw input and re ranking them. How do you get access to google search results ?

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Re:Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine by zelly on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @07:05PM (#23775222)

Probably scraping with a sea of proxy IPs or a rented botnet

One could test this hypothesis by doing the same thing to it--spamming search queries from numerous IPs--to see if Runnaroo's IPs stop working (get 429'd or captchawalled). I don't really have time to whiteknight for G, but OP should be prepared for them to take notice. (Maybe create a global rate limit.)

I'm interested in how the ranking algorithm works because it seems really good.

Edit: Runaroo is now down. Looks like he was ahead of me on the global rate limit suggestion.

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Re:Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine by thruflo22 on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @02:53PM (#23773071)

Yup, Google T&Cs explicitly forbid. So it’s either breaking them or got a deal with Google?

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Re:Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine by rvnx on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @04:33PM (#23773930)

Knowing how Google works there is no deal

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Re:Show HN: Runnaroo – A new search engine by puranjay on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @03:42PM (#23773496)

For complex queries, my results are distinctly different than Google

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