I’d like a ban lis option with public ban lists that I can elect to use so I can avoid having to spend time doing this manually.

Think of it as server side uBlock for search results.

I don't actually want Google to index as much of the internet as it possibly can. I actually want streamlined indices that are tailored towards thoroughly searching a specific knowledge domain.

Edit: I would love, love, love a search engine specifically tailored towards programming questions. One that doesn't treat queries like "C# ?." as me looking for "C#" and getting the most generic results possible.

Yes, instead of Google collecting information about me to improve my search experience, I want:

- A box where I can select the context of my search.

- The box then appends a specific string to the query.

For example, if I set the box to "clothes", the box will append "waist 34 inch, 5 feet tall" to the query.

If I set the box to "programming", the box will append "favorite_languages:Python,C++" to the query.

And of course a search engine should interpret it accordingly. No need to collect and store my personal information.

I just want a search engine that gives me AND, OR, and NOT qualifiers or something similar. Parens, too, if possible. Ideally, an sql interface, but that's probably pushing it :)

> Ideally, an sql interface

You could use Google BigQuery to write such queries for the whole internet (or parts you chose)

You can have that with my idea. Just leave the Combobox empty.

I had an idea for this where I was building a manually-constructed index of sites kind of like old-school Yahoo (related to typography), and then there would be a full-text search of those URLs and their close relatives (pretty much, the idea being that for a given URL, I'd index anything else in the same URL directory or subdirectories of that URL). I ended up giving up on it largely because time is finite and I have plenty of other projects competing for my time. I imagine something that built on the basic idea though could work, by omitting the Yahoo-style directory and instead working from a collection of vetted URL starting points.

If you have a (very) short list you can make/modify a search engine entry to add a -site:which.ever for each that cause problems. The problem is that the scummy sites are legion but the negate list / search term limit usually cannot handle many - I don't know what Brave's limits might be.