A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by BenoitP on Thursday September 16, 2021 @02:40PM (#28555486)

Yup, but so far no one got it.

There was such an app in the early 2000's, before Google went mainstream, and Altavista-like engines were not good: Copernic 2000.

I guess I'm officially old now.

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by genewitch on Thursday September 16, 2021 @07:14PM (#28559004)

For years I wanted to try Copernic Summarizer. It seemed like it actually worked. Then software that did summaries disappeared, maybe? And about 5 years ago bots on Reddit were doing summaries of news stories (and then links in comments).

This is a pattern I see over and over again, some research group or academics show that something can be done (summaries that make sense and are true summaries, evolutionary algorithm FPGA programming, real time gaze prediction, etc) and there's a few published code repos and a bit of news, then 'poof' - no where to be seen for 15 years or more.

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by tomerv on Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:17PM (#28556948)

FWIW, I got the reference. Maybe I'm old too?

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by squeaky-clean on Thursday September 16, 2021 @11:38PM (#28560932)

I was always a dogpile user :p

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by LightG on Friday September 17, 2021 @05:46AM (#28563223)

Hotbot!

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