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Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by newaccount74 on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @03:59AM (#32922017)
In Austria there is "geizhals.at" [1], which is a price comparison website for electronics, and they have the best parametric search engine I have ever seen. It's 1000x better than Amazon search.

However, there's no way Geizhals will ever expand into general search. The reason why they are so much better than the competition is that they are focussing on a small, profitable niche and presumably use manual data entry to ensure they have the best data.

[1]: there's a UK version too "skinflint.co.uk"

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Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by Lio on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @05:35AM (#32922642)
Just opened skinflint.co.uk to have a look. I was greeted by "Do Not Track detected only storing necessary information". That's wonderful!

I don't think I've seen a website that does that before and I think it's worth praising.

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Re:EU Open Web Search project kicked off by Akronymus on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @06:42AM (#32923169)
Geizhals is my go to for anything computer related. Somewhat amusing that such a good site comes out from this little country.
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