Introducing Search Apps! Now, when you search for certain things, such as a calculator, search apps will appear that allow you to do those things without leaving Nova Search. More Search Apps coming soon!

Hey! For the past couple of months, I have been working on a website search engine called Syrch. This search engine, at the moment, strictly searches user-submitted websites. Unlike other web search engines, though, Syrch syrches through tags, to get exactly what you want.

For example, "free, indie, web development" would bring up SparkShell and a few other websites, "-Company:Google" would bring up every indexed site not owned by Google, "-corporate, |Company:Alphabet" would bring up websites not tagged with corporate, but also include websites that are owned by Alphabet, despite being a corporation.

This search function is partially present in YouTube and varying social media, so why not search the Internet with it?

Special thanks to @radi8 for supplying a 100 megabytes JSON list of websites he's indexed.

https://syrch.sparkshell.app.

Please don't ask where I got the inspiration for this was, i forgor

search engines:

DuckDuckGo

main pro:

• secure

Yahoo!

main pro:

• convenient

Ecosia

main pro:

• they plant trees

Swisscows

main pros:

• secure

• filtered?

OceanHero

main pro:

• they clean the ocean (similar to Ecosia)

Google

main pros:

• most used/popular search engine

• google doodles!

• they’re tryin to use ai

Gibiru

main pro:

• encrypting google (so it’s private)

Yep

main pro:

• they pay the content creators

ask.com

main pro:

• ????

Brave search

main pro:

• “unmatched privacy”

WolframAlpha

main pro:

• good for “students, teachers and researchers”

Mojeek

main pro:

• unbiased

Ekoru

main pro:

• basically the same thing as OceanHero

disconnect search

main pro:

• even more private

(I left out some search engines but i can’t do them all and most of them are about the same as DuckDuckGo)

Now for a non-weird question:

I’m going to implement searching for TBG REST. However, I’m not sure what query syntax I should use. Here’s the list:

Raw         : /search/posts?keywords=keyword&author=author&forums=2&forums=5&search_in=0&sort_by=0&sort_dir=DESC
Ocular style: /search/posts?q=keyword +username:"author" +category:"TBG" +category:"RPG"&sort=0&order=DESC
GitHub style: /search/posts?q=keyword user:author in:TBG in:RPG sort:time-desc (you can also use `sort=` and `order=` queries if you want)

not URI encoded for readabilty (for humans at least)

Which one should I choose?

A Story of Marzinory: Episode 2

Me and my friend, Marziana, are exploring an abandoned structure. The press has reported sightings of an unusual creature around this structure. We didn’t find it upon inspecting the surface level of the structure, so we have no choice but to find a way into the interior levels.

Marziana finds a hole in a room’s floor that leads into deeper levels. We go in.

Half an hour later, our search remains fruitless. We’re about to move onto the next floor when Marziana poses an idea.

Marziana: “Let’s split up. You search the next floor, I’ll search the floor below that. If that creature spots you, just scream and make for the hole that we came in through.“

Me: “Alright.“

While I’m checking out a side room, I feel like I can hear footsteps. I close the door, remain dead silent & look through the gap. I see nothing.

A few minutes later, I hear Marziana shout from downstairs.

Marziana: “[My Name]! Come down here!“

I don’t respond. I could’ve sworn I heard the creature’s footsteps. The timing, the timing . . .

A few minutes later, I slowly open the door. I shout back:

Me: “Coming!“

I go downstairs. Logically, Marziana would be waiting for me at the bottom of the stairs. But she isn’t there. The next logical answer is that she made a discovery & is waiting for me there. I’m not going to risk getting heard by the creature, so I don’t shout again. Instead, I start searching this floor for her . . .

Looking to add web search to your project? Nova Search has completely independent search results accessible via our free API.

You can find out how to use & integrate the API into your project with our publicly available API documentation https://docs.novasearch.xyz

@jeffalo, I found a bug. If you search for a percent encoded string (i.e., literally searching something like exactly %22) makes the website think (for changes pages and such) that you’re instead searching for what the string encodes to (in this case, that’s be the quotation mark).

This issue seems to be present for both Wasteof2 and Wasteof4.

https://wasteof.money/search?q=search

searching wikipeia on google to search google on wikipedia

yo, did you know you can add emojis to your google searches?

for example, here's me searching for 'funny memes' with a side of spice:

"funny memes"

now when i'm tryna be a total boomer and get my google on, i'll never have to be bored again! it's a game-changer, folks. so, use your emoji game to add a little flair to your online searches today!

twitter sucks, but i just learned that disabling bing search results in windows search makes it comically faster, so if you don’t use that feature, you can disable it with this in powershell (credit Hank Poley)

Set-ItemProperty -Path "HKCU:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Search" -Name "BingSearchEnabled" -Value 0 -Type DWord

tell me if the results are noticeable if you do it. debloating windows is really something

I’m kinda getting tired of having to explain every single one of my terms to some people.

like explaining one or two? I’m fine with that

explaining a term I coined that I identify with? Yeah sure

but all of them or most of them?? at that point you can just google search all of them (except for ones I coined)

just, if you don’t know, search it up. there’s most likely an answer.

it is not hard to search “what is transneutral” on google.

@jeffalo idea for wasteof3: parameters for search/more advanced search

hey wasteof I’ve been making something I’m quite proud of, a completely independent search engine.

it’s definitely not the best, having only just under 6,000 web pages indexed, but it doesn’t take any data from third parties such as Bing or Google, which most other “search engines” (like DuckDuckGo, Ecosia, Yahoo etc) do

you can try it out at https://novasearch.xyz, it’s still very work in progress, please do feel free to contribute on github, whether by reporting a bug you find or creating a pull request https://github.com/Nova-Search

if robbers ever broke into my house and searched for money, I'd just laugh and search with them