Show HN: Wiby – A Minimalist’s Search Engine
wiby.orgAs I've used the website before, I was surprised to see a larger number of search results than usual. Turns out https://wiby.org/ is distinct from the older version, https://wiby.me/, which only indexes few sites.
Wiby.org is my homepage. I occasionally click "surprise me..." to view 90s style websites. I find them more interesting than scrolling though modern stuff.
Looks like a very early version of searx, which is an open source privacy-respecting metasearch engine:
I really like the wiby.me version of this. It displays results only from early web style pages; a great throwback to an era where not everything was "corporate".
I used to know of a search engine that supported a bunch of added functionality for searching some selected popular sites. Like "wp whatever" would search just Wikipedia. It supported many man little command shortcuts.
It was popular among dwm/i3 users, and I have forgotten it :(
I was a fan of MacOS performing searches with Command + Spacebar, so on Linux I scripted a similar popup-prompt that would open Firefox and feed my input to this search engine.
”Bangs are shortcuts that quickly take you to search results on other sites. For example, when you know you want to search on another site like Wikipedia or Amazon, our bangs get you there fastest. A search for
will take you directly to Wikipedia... [DDG offers] 13,505 bangs and counting...”!w filter bubbleNot exactly a search engine, but maybe you mean surfraw? https://gitlab.com/surfraw/Surfraw
Sounds like DuckDuckGo?
alfred?
OMG! I can actually search for something and not end up in some conglomerate corporate non informational results. This is a dream! How are you able to filter out all the garbage.
It is mixing Wiby's index with pages from Bings index. Wiby has criteria for the types of pages that can be part of its index, and those pages must be submitted directly by users.
Tested my app: https://videohubapp.com/
Searched for "Video Hub App" and it didn't find my website :(
Search results are powered by Bing and its own index, so if you're not showing up you can just submit yourself
wow, I really like this! I'm really fed up with what google has turned into and miss when search was just a simple list of blue links w/o the unnecessary noise. Will start using this, thanks!
I'm impressed with the quality of the results.
I get 502 bad gateway.
Wish I saw this earlier heh. I have a bug to fix!
Edit: I believe the bug which caused the crash is fixed now (knock on wood)
It works now - and it is awesome and fast. Will definitely try this more.
I got a chuckle of the 'wibyplex' photo in the about page.
Seems like there is an increasing need for alternative search engines