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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by drpixie on Saturday September 18, 2021 @04:12AM (#28574545)
Really like it, and love that you've done this yourself.

I'd prefer if it does just one thing and does that really well. Don't waste your time on calculator and conversion functions, or pseudo-natural language queries. There are plenty of good calculator & converter tools and websites, but we all need a really good search engine. I think you'd be better looking at handling synonyms and plurals.

Thanks.

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Re:A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes... by marginalia_nu on Saturday September 18, 2021 @03:34PM (#28578625)
I've mostly added these converters and frills because I'm trying to eat my own dogfood, and google is deeply engrained as my go-to source for unit conversions and back-of-envelope calculations.

Don't worry, this stuff is easy, and doesn't even remotely take away from the work on the harder problems.

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