How I Experience Web Today

Re:How I Experience Web Today by NiceWayToDoIT on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:39PM (#28280902)

Idea: What if we had a search engine that would search only web sites without ads...

It could have some type of "readability / usability / user friendliness rating" (score 0-10) ...

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Re:How I Experience Web Today by ksangeelee on Monday August 23, 2021 @03:59PM (#28281150)

I did something along those lines as a proof of concept, seeded with links harvested from this site.

http://kakapo.susa.net:8080/cfs/

A similar (and in my opinion more viable) approach is Marginalia Search. This down-scores pages with a large number of scripts, among other heuristics.

https://search.marginalia.nu/

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Re:How I Experience Web Today by NiceWayToDoIT on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:09AM (#28285003)

I like your proof of concept. I guess, next step would be to take google result, and crawl all their result and convert it into scores, rejecting in the process those that are going outside defined limits. Additionally, a weekly list of most infamous sites would be interesting to see, in the sense what people visit the most (probably social ad driven) but has bad UX...

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Re:How I Experience Web Today by pneto on Monday August 23, 2021 @09:00PM (#28283987)

wiby.me is an interesting one.

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Re:How I Experience Web Today by NiceWayToDoIT on Tuesday August 24, 2021 @12:11AM (#28285017)

it seems that manual submission is necessary.

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