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Hi to anyone reading this group.

I've been playing with a concept for a radicaly different design for a
search engine (I kept finding certain searches near impossible on
DDG/Google/Bing/etc. because of SEO/AI/just plain dumbness).

Anyway, I've called this search engine TagSearch, and the URL for this
search engine is http://search.turnquist.name/ .

The basic idea is that it prioritizes indexed keywords in searches.
Currently full-text is not indexed, but instead using the <meta
keywords> tag as most important, plus <title> and <h?> tags.

But in addition, anyone can create an account and, once logged in, can
add their own weighted tags to a search result, moving the result
higher or lower on their results list.  Those tags are also aggregated
into a pseudo-user that affects the weighting in general (not logged
in) searches, essentially a crowd-edited search.  With enough users,
inappropriate SEO manipulations of the results should be offset by
others tagging that result down (or up).

URLs can be submitted, but are currently limited to one submission per
hour to make sure nothing goes haywire and unintentionally hammers
someone's server.

There's still a bit of work to do, but I'd be interested in receiving
feedback.

--Andrew

-- 
Andrew Turnquist, Short Tract, New York, USA (USDA Zone 5)
(Remove numbers and .invalid for email address)
"Do what you can with what you have where you are." -T Roosevelt

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