From b5e8d353739a62326f7cc8bb5067a7443a7299c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rohan Kumar Date: Wed, 17 Mar 2021 14:35:13 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Clarify alternatives that support limiting by TLD In the info for search.tl, clarify that its single-TLD search isn't a unique feature; Google and Bing support a search operator to achieve the same result. --- content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi | 4 +++- content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md | 5 ++++- 2 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi b/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi index 522d8ca..9eccbd5 100644 --- a/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi +++ b/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ These engines fail badly at a few important tests. * wbsrch : In addition to its generalist search, it also has many other utilities related to domain name statistics. Failed multiple tests. Its index is a bit dated; it has an old backlog of sites it hasn’t finished indexing. It also has several dedicated per-language indexes. * ExactSeek : small index, disproportionately dominated by big sites. Failed multiple tests. Allows submitting individual URLs for crawling, but requires entering an email address and receiving a newsletter. Webmaster tools seem to heavily push for paid SEO options. * Meorca: A UK-based search engine that claims not to "index pornography or illegal content websites". It also features a public blog with a marketplace and free games. Allows submitting URLs, but requires a full name, email, phone number, and "business name" to do so. Discovered in the seirdy.one access logs. -* search.tl: Generalist search for one TLD at a time (defaults to .com). I'm not sure why you'd want to do this, but it exists. There isn't any visible UI for changing the TLD for available results; you need to add/change the "tld" URL paramater. For example, to search .org sites, append "&tld=org" to the URL. It seems to be connected to Amidalla.de, but Amidalla doesn't seem to currently be operational. Amidalla allows users to manually add URLs to its index and directory; I have yet to see if doing so impacts search.tl results. +* search.tl: Generalist search for one TLD at a time (defaults to .com). I'm not sure why you'd want to always limit your searches to a single TLD, but now you can.⁷ There isn't any visible UI for changing the TLD for available results; you need to add/change the "tld" URL paramater. For example, to search .org sites, append "&tld=org" to the URL. It seems to be connected to Amidalla.de, but Amidalla doesn't seem to currently be operational. Amidalla allows users to manually add URLs to its index and directory; I have yet to see if doing so impacts search.tl results. => http://www.seekport.com/ seekport => https://www.exalead.com/search/ Exalead @@ -212,3 +212,5 @@ Some of this content came from the Search Engine Map and Search Engine Party. A ⁶ Ask.moe was working on a FLOSS indexer; its search page stated an intention to switch to it from Bing at one point. This statement has since been removed. => https://git.sr.ht/~danskeren/spider.moe FLOSS indexer + +⁷ Google and Bing support the "site:" search operator to limit searches to subpages/subdomains of a single site, but it can also limit searches to a single TLD. "site:.one", for instance, limits searches to websites with the ".one" TLD. diff --git a/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md b/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md index ab47808..9d949f2 100644 --- a/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md +++ b/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md @@ -92,7 +92,8 @@ These engines fail badly at a few important tests. - [wbsrch](https://wbsrch.com/): In addition to its generalist search, it also has many other utilities related to domain name statistics. Failed multiple tests. Its index is a bit dated; it has an old backlog of sites it hasn't finished indexing. It also has several per-language indexes. - [ExactSeek](https://www.exactseek.com/): small index, disproportionately dominated by big sites. Failed multiple tests. Allows submitting individual URLs for crawling, but requires entering an email address and receiving a newsletter. Webmaster tools seem to heavily push for paid SEO options. - [Meorca](https://meorca.com/): a search engine that claims not to "index pornography or illegal content websites". It also features a public blog with a marketplace and free games. Allows submitting URLs, but requires a full name, email, phone number, and "business name" to do so. Discovered in the seirdy.one access logs. -* [search.tl](http://www.search.tl/): Generalist search for one TLD at a time (defaults to .com). I'm not sure why you'd want to do this, but it exists. There isn't any visible UI for changing the TLD for available results; you need to add/change the `tld` URL parameter. For example, to search .org sites, append `&tld=org` to the URL. It seems to be connected to [Amidalla](http://www.amidalla.de/), but Amidalla doesn't seem to currently be operational. Amidalla allows users to manually add URLs to its index and directory; I have yet to see if doing so impacts search.tl results. + +* [search.tl](http://www.search.tl/): Generalist search for one TLD at a time (defaults to .com). I'm not sure why you'd want to always limit your searches to a single TLD, but now you can.[^7] There isn't any visible UI for changing the TLD for available results; you need to add/change the `tld` URL parameter. For example, to search .org sites, append `&tld=org` to the URL. It seems to be connected to [Amidalla](http://www.amidalla.de/), but Amidalla doesn't seem to currently be operational. Amidalla allows users to manually add URLs to its index and directory; I have yet to see if doing so impacts search.tl results. ### Unusable engines, irrelevant results @@ -168,3 +169,5 @@ Some of this content came from the [Search Engine Map](https://www.searchenginem [^6]: Ask.moe was working on a [FLOSS indexer](https://git.sr.ht/~danskeren/spider.moe); its search page stated an intention to switch to it from Bing at one point. This statement has since been removed. +[^7]: Google and Bing support the `site:` search operator to limit searches to subpages/subdomains of a single site, but it can also limit searches to a single TLD. `site:.one`, for instance, limits searches to websites with the ".one" TLD. +