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Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:52AM (#49697925)
Seeing as how the search is already built around filtering against SEO, I actually read your comment as SSO (single sign on) - could be a good proxy/filter for "Enterprise" or B2B sites. I'll plan to add an SSO filter.
Re:Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026) on Monday September 14, 2026 @12:12AM (#49691891)
MillionShort - A long tail search engine that lets you remove up to the top 1 million most popular websites from results - https://millionshort.com

I posted Million Short 14 years ago to HN and the search engine has been largely the same since then. Now working on a pretty major overhaul: Launching our own decent sized independent index along with some (I think) cool & useful features.

The search requires a paid account currently although I plan to post a Show HN soon that won't require any account or payment.

Re:The next Google on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @06:08PM (#30925696)
Likely not the next Google but wanted to share: https://sanction.millionshort.com

SANCTION is an experimental search engine powered by the popular experimental search engine Million Short – an experiment within an experiment. (This is alpha and buggy!) With SANCTION you can choose to remove results from any Country you wish, for whatever reason.

Result removal is based on both the ccTLD and geographic location of where the page is hosted (a 1st degree connection). We have also provided the ability to remove results based on the ccTLD and location the scripts a particular page includes via script tags (a 2nd degree connection).

Re:Ask HN: Is 'search' a solved problem? on Wednesday June 13, 2018 @10:55AM (#17303648)
We're trying. Kindly see https://millionshort.com
We're actively working to add lots of features on Million Short in 2018. I'd be happy to add any feature requests to our roadmap planning.
Re:What "viable search engine competition" really looks like on Sunday January 05, 2014 @01:12AM (#7014817)
Web search with up to the top million most popular web sites removed: https://millionshort.com/
We've been quietly working away on MillionShort - please stay tuned.
Re: Blocked Sites is discontinued on Saturday March 23, 2013 @04:35PM (#5429674)
You can remove up to the top ones million sites with MillionShort: http://millionshort.com/about.html and you can specify individual sites to remove via settings: http://millionshort.com/settings.php
Re: on Monday February 04, 2013 @04:07PM (#5167146)
Feedback would be awesome. The voice data is obtained via Flash for now.
Re:The Web Is A Mess on Tuesday October 30, 2012 @08:00PM (#4720417)
Glad you like it. We'll be realeasing some interesting features in the coming days and weeks.
Please give the "Million Short It On" challenge a try at http://www.MillionShortItOn.com challenge a try. You might be surprised by Million Short for long tail searches.
Re:Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex on Thursday September 06, 2012 @11:11PM (#4487533)
I rememeber back in the day when email addresses like hello@[8.8.8.8] were valid..
Re:Bing vs. Google on Thursday September 06, 2012 @09:01PM (#4487188)
Give http://www.millionshort.com a try for long tail. Set filter to exlude top million sites.
Re:Show HN: Millionshort, 3 months later on Thursday August 02, 2012 @12:55PM (#4329683)
Not really duplicate - that was the intial post 3 months ago. The site has gone through a complete overhaul with new features/functions like News Search, Image Search, Inverse via MillionTall.com etc. etc.
Re:Show HN: Millionshort, 3 months later on Thursday August 02, 2012 @12:54PM (#4329675)
We'll be adding https shortly.
Re:Show HN: Millionshort, 3 months later on Thursday August 02, 2012 @12:31PM (#4329534)
Any feedback would be awesome.

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