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Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway.

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On 2019-04-28, Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> wrote:
> On 2019-04-28, tom <tom@0.0.0.0> wrote:
>> Try wiby.me
>
> Utter shit.
 
From https://wiby.me/about/

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Why Wiby?

Search engines like Google are indispensable, able to find answers to
all of your technical questions; but along the way, the fun of web
surfing was lost. In the early days of the web, pages were made
primarily by hobbyists, academics, and computer savvy people about
subjects they were interested in. Later on, the web became saturated
with commercial pages that overcrowded everything else. All the
personalized websites are hidden among a pile of commercial pages.
Google isn't great at finding those gems, its focus is on finding
answers to technical questions, and it works well; but finding things
you didn't know you wanted to know, which was the real joy of web
surfing, no longer happens. In addition, many pages today are created
using bloated scripts that add slick cosmetic features in order to mask
the lack of content available on them. Those pages contribute to the
blandness of today's web. 

The Wiby search engine is building a web of pages as it was in the
earlier days of the internet. In addition, Wiby helps vintage computers
to continue browsing the web, as page results are more suitable for
their performance.
//--clip

They bill themselves as "search engine for classic websites" which
sounds a bit limited, nostalgic even.  It also smacks of hand curation.

From ResearchBuzz:
https://researchbuzz.me/2017/10/30/step-back-to-vintage-internet-with-new-search-engine-wiby/

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If you’d like to take a step back in Internet time, to when Web pages were smaller and less advanced, check out Wiby.me, a search engine that launched at the beginning of October. It’s designed to find only smaller Web pages (which usually means older Web pages.)

Even its front page will remind you of Google’s earlier, spartan beginnings. There’s a search box and a “surprise me” link, with two links on the right for submitting a page and settings.

...

But a lot of the time it does mean older Web pages, and a Web you don’t
see as much anymore; people building Web sites for things they love and
find interesting, not for sites they want to game to the top of Google
results for tons of ad revenue. Not for selling items they’re getting
dropshipped from Alibaba. Stuff they love and want to share.

...

It became clear to me after playing with this search engine for a bit
that it was not going to go on my “useful search engine” shelf. It was
not going to become part of my search tool box that I could go to when I
had a tricky search problem.

But this is a heck of a resource to use when you’re just poking around,
want a better sense of what the Internet used to be like, or you want to
surface things you’d be unlikely to find nowadays. How else would I come
across a page from 2001 about 14-year-old Zack and his pet corn snakes?
When would I have noticed the online glass museum, via its page on glass
fishing floats? How would I have found that article about Heraclitus of
Ephesos?

I cannot recommend Wiby as a tool for serious search. I can, however,
recommend it as a tool for nostalgia, exploring, and creativity. Have
fun.
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Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. "(p)ing^~dvox:::::::::z" <dvox@hotbot.com> - 2019-02-15 04:21 +0000
  Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. whodunit <whodunit@notme.org> - 2019-03-08 20:39 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2019-03-08 21:18 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-10 22:48 -0400
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. nunnurbiz <whodunit@notme.org> - 2019-03-12 02:10 +0000
          Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-12 11:27 +0000
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-03-12 09:42 -0400
              Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-12 14:26 +0000
          Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2019-03-12 11:39 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RJH <patchmoney@gmx.com> - 2019-03-15 09:17 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-03-08 21:32 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-03-09 02:15 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Bob Eager <news0073@eager.cx> - 2019-03-09 09:14 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-09 09:41 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) - 2019-03-13 10:17 -0400
          Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. danny burstein <dannyb@panix.com> - 2019-03-13 16:29 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-03-08 21:38 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-08 23:51 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-08 23:40 -0500
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-09 12:16 +0000
          Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-10 20:38 -0400
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Roger Blake <rogblake@iname.invalid> - 2019-03-11 03:53 +0000
              Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2019-03-11 06:16 +0000
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-11 10:38 +0000
              Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-03-11 20:55 +0000
                Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-11 22:07 +0000
                Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-03-12 00:00 +0000
                Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-12 11:26 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. nunnurbiz <whodunit@notme.org> - 2019-03-12 02:08 +0000
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-12 21:53 +0000
          Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. nunnurbiz <whodunit@notme.org> - 2019-03-13 19:59 +0000
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-03-13 20:17 +0000
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-03-13 22:12 +0000
              Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> - 2019-03-14 20:36 +0000
                Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-03-15 08:51 -0400
                Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Nyssa <Nyssa@flawlesslogic.com> - 2019-03-15 17:08 -0400
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2019-03-14 21:23 +0000
  Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. NUNURBIZ <NUNURBIZ@YAHOO.COM> - 2019-04-19 02:00 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-19 10:53 +0000
      Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. tom <tom@0.0.0.0> - 2019-04-28 09:55 -0700
        Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2019-04-28 17:48 +0000
          Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-29 16:42 -0400
            Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2019-04-29 23:19 +0000
    Re: Nothing Can Stop Google. DuckDuckGo Is Trying Anyway. RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2019-04-20 08:54 +0000

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