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rohden<span class="h-card"><a class="u-url mention" href="https://suma-ev.social/@MetaGer" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>MetaGer</span></a></span> <br>Top. Zudem gibt es noch Suchmaschinen mit eigenen kleinen, mittleren und recht großen Indizes (z.&nbsp;B. mwmbl):<br><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/marginalia" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#marginalia</a> <a href="https://marginalia-search.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://marginalia-search.com/</a><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/stract" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#stract</a> <a href="https://stract.com/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://stract.com/</a><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/wiby" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#wiby</a> <a href="https://wiby.me/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://wiby.me/</a><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/yacy" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#YaCy</a> <a href="https://yacy.net/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://yacy.net/</a><br><a class="hashtag" href="https://fe.disroot.org/tag/mwmbl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#mwmbl</a> <a href="https://mwmbl.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mwmbl.org</a><br>...<br><br>Wie wäre es mit einer metager-Variante, die nur diese als Metasuche abdeckt?
Martin Hamilton<p>Got a minute? <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/SearchClub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SearchClub</span></a> would love to get your feedback on some potential "easy starter projects" to help reclaim search for the searcher - and any other ideas you'd like to share.</p><p>Check out the ChaosPad, and let us know what you think: <a href="https://pads.ccc.de/rNBu09Mr2M" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pads.ccc.de/rNBu09Mr2M</span><span class="invisible"></span></a>. Perhaps you'd like to get involved? Even better! :blobfoxhyper2: </p><p><a href="https://martinh.net/tags/38C3" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>38C3</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/CCC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CCC</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/Search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Search</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/Discovery" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Discovery</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/SearchEngines" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SearchEngines</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/LLM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLM</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/LLMs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LLMs</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/GenAI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GenAI</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/MushroomForaging" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MushroomForaging</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/PizzaGlue" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PizzaGlue</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/Mwmbl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mwmbl</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/SearXNG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SearXNG</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/Blocklists" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Blocklists</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/uBlock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uBlock</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/uBlockOrigin" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uBlockOrigin</span></a> <a href="https://martinh.net/tags/uBlacklist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>uBlacklist</span></a></p>
Daoud<p>Stats page on the <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SearchEngine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SearchEngine</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Mwmbl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mwmbl</span></a> is finally fixed. And crawling should be working again.</p><p>Feeling a new level of motivation after attending the excellent <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/OSSym24" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OSSym24</span></a> 🎉</p>
Daoud<p>We're now tracking how many unique URLs we have in the <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Mwmbl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mwmbl</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SearchEngine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SearchEngine</span></a> index!</p><p><a href="https://mwmbl.org/stats/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">mwmbl.org/stats/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Daoud<p>Finally fixed a bug in <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Mwmbl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mwmbl</span></a> that's been annoying users for ages. This kind of bug would never happen with strong typing, but I still love you Python ❤️ </p><p><a href="https://github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl/issues/142" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">github.com/mwmbl/mwmbl/issues/</span><span class="invisible">142</span></a></p><p><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SearchEngine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SearchEngine</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Python</span></a></p>
Daoud<p>We're gradually removing our dependency on closed source software, in this case M$: <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Mwmbl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mwmbl</span></a> source code is now mirrored on <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/Codeberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Codeberg</span></a> at <a href="https://codeberg.org/mwmbl/mwmbl" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">codeberg.org/mwmbl/mwmbl</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> 🎉 </p><p>Unfortunately we can't move off <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/GitHub" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GitHub</span></a> just yet as we rely on it for people to find our project... but we plan to one day!</p><p><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/SearchEngine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SearchEngine</span></a></p>
Daoud<p>I finally fixed the most annoying <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/bug" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>bug</span></a> in <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/mwmbl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mwmbl</span></a> I have encountered so far. We read data from a memory map and decompress it using zstd, but randomly the decompressor would crash with horrible errors.</p><p>I went down lots of rabbit holes before I actually read the decompressor docs which clearly stated that it is not safe to use a single instance from multiple threads. Which of course I was doing. 🤦‍♂️ </p><p><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a></p>
DrBob, Neurologist, 🧠Mechanic<p>How bad are search results?</p><p>TL:DR Pretty bad</p><p>Excellent detailed exposition by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@danluu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>danluu</span></a></span> </p><p>Let's compare <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a>, <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Bing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Bing</span></a>, <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Marginalia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Marginalia</span></a>, <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Kagi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Kagi</span></a>, <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/Mwmbl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Mwmbl</span></a>, and <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/ChatGPT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ChatGPT</span></a></p><p>“In the table below, each column is a query (there are more details about what each query is later in the post) and each row is a search engine or ChatGPT. Results are rated (from worst to best) Terrible, Very Bad, Bad, Ok, Good, and Great, with worse results being more red and better results being more blue.”</p><p><a href="https://vmst.io/tags/search" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>search</span></a> <a href="https://vmst.io/tags/enshitification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>enshitification</span></a><br><a href="https://danluu.com/seo-spam/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">danluu.com/seo-spam/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>