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We need more search engines, including ones which are not supported by advertising. Thanks…",{"value":60,"source":53,"evidence":61},"Maker wanted to write a proper web search engine using cutting-edge IR methods.",[62],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"17744807","apo","I'm Marcus, founder of Didyougogo and author of the software behind it. For the past ten years I've been trying to improve my programming and math skills to get to a level where…",[67],{"value":68,"source":69,"evidence":70},"C#","inferred",[71],{"id":72,"by":11,"text":73},"17744369","My boolean logic is here: [1] I'm sure it has flaws. Since the index had only five or six entries a couple of hours ago I set the matching to be wide instead of narrow. 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Top result was the archive.org macos that showed up here on HN recently, 2nd and 3rd…",{"id":56,"by":57,"text":58},{"id":104,"by":105,"text":106},"17744961","reitanqild","This is really cool. I love the feel of it and the ideas of running both on prem as well as oublic instances, letting them cooperate and teaming up with companies. I know…",[108,127,138,145],{"value":109,"source":53,"evidence":110},"Index is tiny, so most searches return irrelevant or no results.",[111,115,119,123],{"id":112,"by":113,"text":114},"17744662","SyneRyder","The index is super tiny. A search for \"the\" got 112 results. Seems like a quick way to explore the entire index. Also it indexes pages twice if you submit them twice, so that…",{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"17744243","spchampion2","I searched for \"Cnn\" and got 0 results. I searched for \"Amazon\" and got a five random results, including the IMDB page for \"Rambo, Part 2.\" If this were really like AltaVista,…",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"17744998","azinman2","Got zero relevant results. Not even sure how the results came back, as the words weren’t in there. Tried “Taoist tai chi,” then “Taoism”. Love the ambition, but a long way to go…",{"id":124,"by":125,"text":126},"17744495","pebers","Definitely some ambitious goals. There's nothing bad about that, but this has an awfully long way to go - e.g. searching for \"hacker news\" works fine, searching for almost…",{"value":128,"source":53,"evidence":129},"Unicode and non-ASCII searches fail or error.",[130,134],{"id":131,"by":132,"text":133},"17745635","asaibx","As others have commented, love the ambitiousness of this! However, Unicode searches do not seem to work at all -- not just \"中文\" but also even \"français\" gives an error. 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Right now, by default, it's \"all rights reserved\" so no one can use it or do anything with it.",{"value":177,"source":53,"evidence":178},"Better name.",[179,180],{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},{"id":153,"by":154,"text":155},[182,186,190],{"value":183,"source":53,"evidence":184},"Is there technical documentation beyond the source code?",[185],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},{"value":187,"source":53,"evidence":188},"How does it scale?",[189],{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},{"value":191,"source":53,"evidence":192},"Why use this over DuckDuckGo?",[193],{"id":194,"by":195,"text":196},"17745963","sleepychu","This is neat & impressive! Why would I use this over duckduckgo? 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Last I looked there was 2 GB space on the HDD. I'm on an entry level B1S Azure VM.",{"id":228,"text":229},"17744426","Yes, indeed. 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