The project explicitly bills itself as a "search engine", not an "interesting and unexpected material surfacer". Moreover, projecting emotions like "angry" onto a comment in order to discredit the content of the comment (hey! is that an ad-hominem?) is just about exactly the opposite of the discussions that the HN mods are trying to curate, and the discussions that I like to see here.

If you click through to the About page, I think you'll see that "interesting and unexpected material surfacer" is a fairly apt description of the project.

I think in fairness that when "interesting and unexpected material surfacer" is merely a euphemism for "we didn't bother indexing the things you might actually be looking for", a degree of scepticism isn't unwarranted.

(Source: I looked up several Irish politicians because I run an all-text website containing every single word that they say in parliament. I got nothing of use, or even of interest, for anything.)

In the early days of google, I found what I was looking for on page 5+. On the way, I’d discover many interesting things I didn’t even know I was looking for, often completely unrelated to what I was searching for.

I miss those old days of even being permitted to go many pages in.

And now Google hides that more than one page even exists, as they populate their first page with buttons to ask similar questions and go to the first page of THOSE results.

> Hobby project leads angry person to interesting and unexpected material; angry person remains angry.

Not angry in the least. I'm thrilled someone is working on a search competitor to Google.

I understand you're attempting to dismiss my pointing out the bad results by calling me angry though. You're focusing your content on me personally, instead of what I pointed out.

The parent was far overhyping the results in a way that was very misleading (look, it's better than Google!). I tried various searches, they were not great results. The parent was very clearly implying something a lot better than that by what they said. The product isn't close to being at that level at this point, overhyping it to such an absurd degree isn't reasonable or fair to the person that is working on it.

I would specifically suggest people not compare it to Google. Let it be its own thing, at least for a good while. Google (Alphabet) is a trillion dollar company. Don't press the expectations so far and stage it to compete with Google at this point. I wouldn't even reference Google in relation to this search engine, let it be its own thing and find its own mindshare.

> I'm thrilled someone is working on a search competitor to Google.

Except the author goes to quite some lengths to explain that his search engine is not a competitor to Google, and is in fact exactly the opposite of Google in many ways: https://memex.marginalia.nu/projects/edge/about.gmi