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Can someome please make a search engine that doesn't use Natural Language Processing? I just want to enter keywords and get results. No fixating on certain terms in the query and no attempts to specialize or localize my results based on my data. I want an old-school search engine, not a digital assistant/answers machine.

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I made this search engine: https://www.gigablast.com/ that seems to fit that bill. As I am really the only programmer on it, my budget is essentially non-existent, therefore not allowing for many of the fancy additions you mentioned. The two biggest problems are 1) small index (need more servers) and 2) synonyms. The synonyms get pretty wonky sometimes, and often I miss good synonyms that I should be getting. But I don't have query logs like Google to use for synonym generation.

Also, I probably should have quit developing this years ago, I know, but it is an obsession. :)

I have to say that I tried this out and really loved it. A simple search for monitor arms shows sites that aren’t click bait with links back to Amazon. I was able to see Herman Miller and Humanscale on the front page. Nice job with this. If you ever lose interest in doing this let me know, I have been considering building a search engine myself for awhile now.

Also check out this new instant answers thing if you are interested. i'd love to get back constructive criticism:

https://www.gigablast.com/search?c=main&qlangcountry=en-us&q... https://www.gigablast.com/search?c=main&qlangcountry=en-us&q... https://www.gigablast.com/search?c=main&qlangcountry=en-us&q...

Very cool Matt!

My only feedback is that it would be good if the source of the instant answer was displayed and linked to so that I could go to the underlying webpage source directly.

I'm really intruiged about the idea of topic/directory based searches. Usually when I'm searching for something I'm not looking to scan through the entirety of what the internet has to offer, I'm looking for something in a specific domain of knowledge.

I would much rather have a more detailed index for a specific topic than a generalized index covering everything. Looking forward to trying this out more.

I just tried it, too, and it works pretty well.

Interestingly, it works even better than DDG on a recent query of mine: "carving a violin bridge".

Your search engine found the exact article (from triangle strings) I was looking for. DDG seems to have not indexed the page at all.

> I made this search engine: https://www.gigablast.com/

Ye gods. It's actually a useful search engine. So useful I'm going to try it as a default for a while.

And it is a lone horse effort? My hat off to you sir.

https://www.runnaroo.com/blog/the-search-engine-hacker-news-...

Uses Google index for organic search, but respects quotes unlike Google, Bing, or DDG. I'm the creator.

Gigablast also mentioned here is very cool as well.

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