78
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 10 months ago by 111@zerobytes.monster to c/foss@beehaw.org
14 comments fedilink hide all child comments
top 14 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 16 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] d3Xt3r@beehaw.org 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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.

[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 4 points 10 months 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.

[-] SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago

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

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 3 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] MJBrune@beehaw.org 2 points 10 months ago

Specially for a paid search service, hard pass that they can't even point their links correctly.

[-] SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

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.

[-] wahming@monyet.cc 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[-] SpacemanSpiff@kbin.social 3 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Weird, they do, but they redirect for me and the final URL is different than what you pasted.

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/getting-started/

https://help.kagi.com/kagi/why-kagi/why-pay-for-search.html

My best guess is that a DNS record is messed up on their end, and since I’ve been to those pages before relatively recently, the cname or A-record is still cached for me.

[-] macallik@kbin.social 1 points 10 months ago

404 for me too

[-] 111@zerobytes.monster 2 points 10 months ago

I am not the developer of this project.

[-] Destragras@kbin.social 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months 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.

[-] panmeek@lemmy.sdf.org 8 points 10 months ago

this looks VERY interesting!

[-] Samsy@lemmy.ml 5 points 10 months ago

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

this post was submitted on 27 Aug 2023
78 points (100.0% liked)

Free and Open Source Software

17503 readers
389 users here now

If it's free and open source and it's also software, it can be discussed here. Subcommunity of Technology.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Gaywallet@beehaw.org
alyaza@beehaw.org