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Re:Show HN: An experimental, people-powered search engine by kevincox on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:05PM (#27318596)
While I love the concept it seems somewhat flawed. If every URL needs to be manually submitted it is far easier for spammers than actual users. Especially if you need a handful of form URLs, is this intended for readers or authors? Because a reader likely just wants to see it or post it on their favourite form, I can't see them going around to a handful. If it is expected that the author does it than that is somewhat encouraging spamming forms.

That being said I like the idea, maybe submission could be made easier with a browser extension? Or you could crawl popular form feeds and become a sort of form aggregator as a form of crawling.

On the other hand how is this different than Reddit? You are basically aggregating links, except instead of providing a form you are linking to multiple forms. I'm not sure if that is better or just an inconvenience. Of course maybe just providing a functional search is enough to distinguish you from Reddit.

Re:Show HN: An experimental, people-powered search engine by zeeshanqureshi on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:42PM (#27319025)
Thanks for the feedback. The forum URLs aren't mandatory. But they do add value to search results that are either pages or blogs. It is hard to illustrate that value with example search queries. I hope that changes with time and a larger, more diverse index.
Re:Show HN: An experimental, people-powered search engine by ksangeelee on Friday May 28, 2021 @04:03PM (#27319826)
I wrote a browser extension that could be used or adapted for this purpose.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/send-tab-url/

The description contains a link to the source code.

Re:Show HN: An experimental, people-powered search engine by TheJoeMan on Saturday May 29, 2021 @09:58AM (#27325243)
I do agree there would need to be a way to reduce spam, but on the contrary I think there is a huge opportunity to cut out the parts of the internet that serve no useful purposes - for example those spam sites that rip off the text of stackoverflow answers with tons of ads.