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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by marginalia_nu on Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:39PM (#28557243)
Understand that this is something I built for myself, by myself, so it focuses on languages I understand. It hosted on a single consumer grade computer in my living room. I built it out of pocket and anyone is free to use it. Does this make me a villain?

If I can do this, what's preventing some guy in Japan or India or Peru from doing the same, of course focusing on their languages?

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by b-x on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:03PM (#28557565)
Maybe a better suited choice for errors than an insulting message: when I provided a query in my native language it regurgitated the error "needs to be a word" instead of more acceptable "not a supported language".

When you claim that a word in some other culture is not "a word", just because it's not recognized by your machine, that's demeaning to say the least.

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by marginalia_nu on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:22PM (#28557819)
Again it's a one man hobby project, I don't have a team of people to go through every formulation and every error message to ensure nobody can read them in a way that offends them. It's just me, writing code on an unfinished project that HN discovered.

In this case, the code doesn't match the word regexp, like it may be a @TwitterHandle or a "comp.lang.c" with periods in it, or an unsupported Unicode range. It doesn't know why it is not matching, just that it doesn't.

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by b-x on Thursday September 16, 2021 @05:39PM (#28558018)
I must congratulate you on this achievement. That's certainly a useful take on search.

Nonetheless, even when coding, one should also consider thoroughly the UX and how it would be addressing the others.

Saying "unsupported word" is much more sympathetic than "needs to be a word" (where you define what a "word" is, and the general user is unaware of such definition).

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by marginalia_nu on Thursday September 16, 2021 @06:17PM (#28558468)
Fair point, I refined the phrasing a bit.

> The term "ð“€€" contains characters that are not currently supported

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by soheil on Thursday September 16, 2021 @11:35PM (#28560914)
Stop feeding the trolls, great job on this project and keep it up, hope at least most of HN is more empathetic.
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