A search engine built by the crowd

Re:A search engine built by the crowd by geraldbaeck on Thursday July 11, 2013 @12:36PM (#6027135)

I think you guesses are absolutely right. We never intended to compete against other engines in the field of "Answers". I think you will always get a better result for ""Population of America" if you search for ai at DuckDuckGo or Google. But in the other hand if you search for example for "NSA" on Blippex (https://www.blippex.org/?q=NSA), we are assuming that you will get those articles about the NSA which is currently the most interesting or the most read.

-Gerald Disclosure: I am the CTO of archify/Blippex.

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Re:A search engine built by the crowd by mcintyre1994 on Thursday July 11, 2013 @12:53PM (#6027279)

That's fair enough, it seems like it would be really useful for article searching, like the NSA one you gave (great, example, blew Google out the water!). I can see it being great for research too, assuming academics spend the most time on a good source which seems reasonable. I'll definitely be giving this a go for some searches, really nice!

Oh, and a quick suggestion: Have you considered a Firefox search engine addon? I do most searches from the omnibar, and I think more people would switch search engine up there than manually go via blippex.com

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Re:A search engine built by the crowd by geraldbaeck on Thursday July 11, 2013 @01:04PM (#6027363)

Thanks. Yes we will implement a Firefox search engine addon soon.

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