From 1ac616cb4e9225261763a42d3fe709ce5233843d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Seirdy Date: Wed, 10 Jul 2024 23:28:25 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Move Lixia to non-commercial, add StarFinder --- content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi | 7 +++++-- content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md | 7 +++++-- 2 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi b/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi index d67a998..f709a78 100644 --- a/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi +++ b/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi @@ -223,6 +223,9 @@ These indexing search engines don’t have a Google-like “ask me anything” e * Clew: a FOSS new engine with a small index of several thousand pages. It focuses on independent content and downranks ads and trackers; there seems to be a real focus on quality over quantity, which makes it excellent for short-tail searches (especially around technical concepts). Ranking is more egalitarian than other engines, making it better for discovery and surfing than research. It's designed to be small and lightweight, with a compact index. Discovered in the seirdy.one access logs. => https://clew.se/ Clew +* Lixia Labs Search: A new engine that focuses on indexing technical websites and blogs, with a minimal JavaScript-free front-end. Discovered in my access logs. Surprisingly good results for broad technical keyword queries. +=> https://search.lixialabs.com/ Lixia Labs Search + ### Site finders These engines try to find a website, typically at the domain-name level. They don't focus on capturing particular pages within websites. @@ -247,7 +250,7 @@ These engines try to find a website, typically at the domain-name level. They do * Semantic Scholar: a search engine by the Allen Institute for AI focused on academic PDFs, with a couple hundred million papers indexed. Discovered in my access logs. * Bonzamate: a search engine specifically for Australian websites. * searchcode: A code-search engine by the developer of Bonzamate. Searches a hand-picked list of code forges for source code, supporting many search operators. -* Lixia Labs Search: A new engine that focuses on indexing technical websites and blogs, with a minimal JavaScript-free front-end. Discovered in my access logs. Surprisingly good results for broad technical keyword queries. +* StarFinder: a search engine that focuses on Open Graph Protocol metadata, searching for domains that have OGP information and rendring link previews for them. A good surf-engine once you grok how to build sufficiently broad queries. Has a large and growing index of 4.8 million sites at the time of writing. Allows site submission. => https://highbrow.se/ High Browse => https://www.keybot.com/ Keybot Translation Search Machine. @@ -255,7 +258,7 @@ These engines try to find a website, typically at the domain-name level. They do => https://bonzamate.com.au/ Bonzamate => https://boyter.org/posts/abusing-aws-to-make-a-search-engine/ Blog post about Bonzamate: "Abuzing AWS to make a search engine". => https://searchcode.com/ searchcode -=> https://search.lixialabs.com/ Lixia Labs Search +=> https://star-finder.de/?l=en StarFinder ## Other languages diff --git a/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md b/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md index 9ece3b5..8aff72f 100644 --- a/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md +++ b/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md @@ -245,6 +245,9 @@ These indexing search engines don’t have a Google-like “ask me anything” e [Clew](https://clew.se/) : a FOSS new engine with a small index of several thousand pages. It focuses on independent content and downranks ads and trackers; there seems to be a real focus on quality over quantity, which makes it excellent for short-tail searches (especially around technical concepts). Ranking is more egalitarian than other engines, making it better for discovery and surfing than research. It's designed to be small and lightweight, with a compact index. Discovered in the seirdy.one access logs. +[Lixia Labs Search](https://search.lixialabs.com/) +: A new engine that focuses on indexing technical websites and blogs, with a minimal JavaScript-free front-end. Discovered in my access logs. Surprisingly good results for broad technical keyword queries. + ### Site finders These engines try to find a website, typically at the domain-name level. They don't focus on capturing particular pages within websites. @@ -286,8 +289,8 @@ Quor [searchcode](https://searchcode.com/) : A code-search engine by the developer of Bonzamate. Searches a hand-picked list of code forges for source code, supporting many search operators. -[Lixia Labs Search](https://search.lixialabs.com/) -: A new engine that focuses on indexing technical websites and blogs, with a minimal JavaScript-free front-end. Discovered in my access logs. Surprisingly good results for broad technical keyword queries. +[StarFinder](https://star-finder.de/?l=en) +: A search engine that focuses on Open Graph Protocol metadata, searching for domains that have OGP information and rendring link previews for them. A good surf-engine once you grok how to build sufficiently broad queries. Has a large and growing index of 4.8 million sites at the time of writing. Allows site submission. ## Other languages