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Why Google is so unbearable (and how to fix it)

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  1. Common Crawl
    I recently found https://commoncrawl.org/ and started working on my own personal search engine. I'm surprised how easy is is to actually get decent results with just metadata that show up nowhere in Google/DDG.

    #Search Engine #Web Scraping #Data Extraction 90 social mentions

  2. YouWrite by You.com is an AI writing assistant built into the search engine.
    I don't think there is the need of curating content in a social search way, if the SE itself is just good and alternative SE's that are coming up seem very promising. e.g., you.com lets you pick preferred sources, so that you can tailor your search experience to your needs. They've also done a great job on recipes. https://you.com/search?q=oven%20roasted%20broccoli Neeva and Kagi also seem promising, though their both waitlist/invite only still.

    #Productivity #Writing Tools #AI 35 social mentions

  3. Search thousands of sites directly from DuckDuckGo
    Our documentation still sucks, but Kagi supports all bangs that DDG supports and you can find them here : https://duckduckgo.com/bang.

    #Search Engine #iPhone #Web App 196 social mentions

  4. 5
    Ad-free, private search
    Actually I think Neeva is fully open now for all to try at https://neeva.com/ I don't work for them, but I have gone the paid route with them and I am very pleased with them as my default search now.

    #iPhone #Web App #Productivity 65 social mentions

  5. Google Webmaster Tools provides you with detailed reports about your pages' visibility on...
    If you want it for your own domain I think you can still get backlinks in the Google Search Console https://search.google.com/search-console/about.

    #SEO Tools #SEO #Online Services 95 social mentions

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