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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by direwolf20 on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:29PM (#47185145)
What if we had more specialized search engines? There should be a recipe aggregator that searches for recipes and nothing else, and prioritizes high value recipe sites.
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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by cortesoft on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:31PM (#47185190)
Then we would need a search engine for search engines…

Also, how would a search engine for recipes work? How does THAT search engine find when a new recipe site is created? It would be to scrape the whole internet just to find all the recipe sites….

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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by bikelang on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:40PM (#47185307)
Random ideas:

- it could work like the Kagi smallweb. people submit sites and you can’t submit your own until you submit (and have accepted) enough of others

- I’m also envisioning a parallel world where the big tech monopolies next existed. Maybe there could be crawler/indexer companies whose product was the stream of new content. Then you as a specialist search engine could consume the stream to build your own custom index and weights

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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by Aldipower on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:40PM (#47185303)
This exists and is called a meta search engine. For example like MetaGer, which was extremely famous 20 years ago in Germany. https://metager.org/
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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by syncsynchalt on Friday February 27, 2026 @07:50PM (#47188434)
> a search engine for search engines…

Everything old is new again: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MetaCrawler

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Re:Leaving Google has actively improved my life by hn_acc1 on Friday February 27, 2026 @03:45PM (#47185349)
Reminds me a bit of how yahoo got started: categories, sub-categories, etc..

Of course, back then they had thousands of websites to categorize not billions.

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