A search engine that removes the 1 million most popular web sites from its index

Re:A search engine that removes the 1 million most popular w... by robertjwebb on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @07:09PM (#6812199)

I agree - such a search engine would not be as general as Google or Yahoo. But in sacrificing generality it might become better at handling certain types of requests. I am sure that given such a service the community of HN will make light work of finding out what they are :)

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Re:A search engine that removes the 1 million most popular w... by drakaal on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @07:33PM (#6812292)

Also it would by hypocritical that it would block sites with ads but likely have to use ads to generate revenue.

As the owner of a search engine I can tell you search ain't cheap.

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Re:A search engine that removes the 1 million most popular w... by robertjwebb on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @08:12PM (#6812457)

Yeah. Also, how do you computationally distinguish between a commercial and non-commercial site? Loads of grey areas.

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Re:A search engine that removes the 1 million most popular w... by drakaal on Wednesday November 27, 2013 @09:08PM (#6812622)

Our Natural Language / Language Heuristics Engine can do this. We do to a small extent now, we haven't gone whole hog because I'm not sure I agree that commercial sites shouldn't rank. For things we determine to be reference searches we downrank sales pages, for things we determine to be shopping searches we uprank them.

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Re:A search engine that removes the 1 million most popular w... by robertjwebb on Friday November 29, 2013 @07:12AM (#6819084)

What product are you developing the engine for?

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