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Stract| A search engine where the user has the ability to see exactly what is going on and customize almost everything about their search results. (trystract.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/foss@beehaw.org
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[–] 16 points 3 years ago (3 children)

How does this show customization of almost anything? Looks like you can only apply one optic at a time and they are very limited in scope. Like I've never cared about hacker news. I don't care to remove the 10k most popular sites, in fact it's want the opposite. Additionally I'd want to mix and match optics. Also let optics be customable. Like why 10k top sites. Why not top 1k or bottom 3000k. How many are there even? The number means nothing if you don't understand what you're left with.

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    You could create your own custom or multi-optic by looking at the existing ones, merging them in a text editor, and hosting the file somewhere accessible, like github.

    See https://trystract.com/settings/optics , the top 10k list also has a comment telling you how it was generated, so you could just create your own top 1k or bottom 3K list, just change the Discard to Boost(0)if you want to limit your results to only these sites.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    I really think having to merge random optics together and then setting them when the system could just allow them to merge them or have variables in them is far too much work. The system should be created with customization for the user, not the filter creator.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Kagi does exactly what you’re describing. It’s what I’ve been using.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Been hearing about it a lot, so your comment made me check them out.

    First 2 links I clicked on on their homepage are 404s. Like, what. I don't have the words for what kind of impression that gives.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    Hmm I just checked, they’re all live and their status page for each link has no outages. I would check any content blockers etc. that you have, I suspect it’s a problem on your end. They do use different domains for their blog, feedback, and help KB etc.

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    • [–] 12 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)

    I tried finding information on what indexer they are using. Are they using their own?

    Edit: says this in the readme:

    The commoncrawl organization for crawling the web and making the dataset readily available. Even though we have our own crawler now, commoncrawl has been a huge help in the early stages of development.

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    [–] 8 points 3 years ago

    this looks VERY interesting!

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    [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Lol it searches through stack, github, fediverse. Really nice.

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