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guywhocodes · 2020-09-17 11:37:12

I want this but a like match for almost all my searches. Search engines are horrible at matching queries with types of result I'm looking for

jfrunyon | karma 1842 | avg karma 1.9 · | 2021-08-21 07:44:42

Try `google/` (well, it doesn't actually exist, but at least in Firefox/Chrome you can see that it will treat it as a URL instead of a search)

BenjaminN | karma 110 | avg karma 1.8 · | 2014-03-11 06:08:21

I HATE IT when you have too many search inputs on a page, that don't give you the same results: http://cl.ly/image/3K111v1N1K1y

mid | karma 44 | avg karma 2.0 · | 2009-08-24 15:07:32

BTW, bing does it right: http://www.bing.com/search?q=999999999999999+-+9999999999999...

js_chap | karma 4 | avg karma 0.24 · | 2021-11-03 21:34:14

You probably want fuzzy search: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approximate_string_matching

pkamb | karma 2435 | avg karma 2.35 · | 2021-11-09 15:49:57

I've always wanted a search engine that searched mainly (only?) Stack Overflow, Reddit, and a handful of other authentic sites.

One note: You.com seems to include Stack Overflow scrapers in the results. Would be better with those removed. These two results go the same content, one on SO and one scraped from it: https://i.imgur.com/TwvDIiC.png

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_delirium | karma 42153 | avg karma 4.32 · | 2010-09-25 20:23:16+00:00

Often at database-like sites, where I can get a list of something in a selectable category that matches a particular term. For example,

IMDB can give me a list of all TV series / films / etc. with "Hobbit" in the title: http://www.imdb.com/find?s=tt&q=hobbit

Musicbrainz lets me search by track name, album name, artist name, etc.: http://musicbrainz.org/search/textsearch.html?type=track&...

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fotta | karma 1214 | avg karma 4.27 · | 2022-12-29 12:05:02

Use the OpenSearch specification [0]. Most search engines and even websites support it. It’s how, for example, you can search YouTube directly in the FF address bar.

[0] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/OpenSearch

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Trouble_007 | karma 3124 | avg karma 2.2 · | 2022-10-13 01:50:14

Be nice if all search engines used the same >'search operators'< : <https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/?q=Bing:'search operators'>

mtmail | karma 10094 | avg karma 1.54 · | 2020-01-14 14:56:23+00:00

Web search leads to many results, e.g. https://itsfoss.com/best-video-editing-software-linux/

kccqzy | karma 13168 | avg karma 3.58 · | 2022-02-15 14:17:51

https://redditsearch.io/ is the way to go, if you want simple keyword matching and don't want Google AI transforming your search query.

rwar | karma 44 | avg karma 1.91 · | 2012-05-10 02:05:58

You can do this with chrome by adding a search engine (and making it default):

https://www.google.com/search?%7Bgoogle:RLZ%7D%7Bgoogle:acce...

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siquick | karma 2258 | avg karma 2.47 · | 2022-08-11 21:23:46

Brave Search has been a nice alternative over the last few months. Still has the !g option if you need but been working well for standard queries.

https://search.brave.com/

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iagovar | karma 2348 | avg karma 3.21 · | 2021-04-23 21:06:04+00:00

This. Sadly it works poorly in other search engines too. I have a bookmark folder with a bunch of search engines, and use it like that.

pablomendes | karma 10 | avg karma 0.77 · | 2023-02-09 14:43:55

You might want to try semantic search instead of fiddling with keywords. Disclaimer: I'm building a plug-and-play semantic search API at https://kailualabs.com

gitgud | karma 5259 | avg karma 2.23 · | 2022-11-25 18:00:43

Anyone have any methods for avoiding this SEO nonsense?

I generally prefix search query with `site:reddit.com` or `site:news.ycombinator.com`

Which returns much better discussions about a question/topic, in those discussions can be genuinely great ideas and links

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tumblen | karma 832 | avg karma 7.63 · | 2012-04-20 23:29:26+00:00

I like this search: http://livegrep.com/search?q=is+a+hack

bobbyi | karma 1156 | avg karma 3.12 · | 2023-11-25 22:21:12

Searching for /bin/[ gets reasonable results for me

https://www.google.com/search?q=%2Fbin%2F%5B

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idoh | karma 2109 | avg karma 2.83 · | 2011-07-21 21:21:25+00:00

The could also add more structure to the results. I feel that results like this are the future:

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

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buckbova | karma 2044 | avg karma 2.71 · | 2016-10-03 17:20:54+00:00

Looks like my primary search engine DuckDuckGo tackled this with a relatively small team.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo

https://duckduckgo.com/

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