A search engine that favors text-heavy sites and punishes modern web design

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MillionShort

#Search Engine #Internet Search #Web Search 38 social mentions

Kudos for taking on this project, and I like the idea! I think it'll be a big project to take it to the next level, but would love to have a search engine that's more useful. Some reactions: - The font is really big and the columns really narrow, so I get 3 - 4 entries per page, something like 8 words per line, and huge spacings between lines, which makes it a frustrating experience. I've been using the recommendations in https://practicaltypography.com/, which recommends 60 - 90 characters in a line I think, and line spacing of 120% - 140% (I like 125%). The line lengths here might technically fall within the lower bound, but it's really short, and for search results I'm going to try scanning the text to see if there's something relevant, so I think going on the long side is better here. At least make the width somewhat variable so that I can shrink the rather large font and fit more on the line. - The results are eclectic, but I'm not sure it's usable at the moment. "scala append list" did not get me much that's helpful, while Google will usually at least put up some click-farming tutorial that although minimal effort does tend to answer the question. Both "mapo doufu recipe" and "ma po do fu recipe" had very few recipes, although the latter did have one. Unfortunately, recipe websites are some of the worst, with about 10 pages of description, ads, pictures, what-have-you until the recipe at the very bottom. "collection unmitigated pedantry" did return the acoup.blog entry at the top, though. Good luck on the project! -.

#Design Tools #Fonts Directory #Web Fonts 62 social mentions

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InfinitySearch.co

In which case, consider paying for something like Infinity: https://infinitysearch.co/.

#Web Search #Search Engine #Internet Search 8 social mentions