[PLUG] web search post filtering

[Ben Koenig]

yo Keith, I just wasted 5 hours of my life implementing Google's Custom
Search API.

http://freehuggers.org/search/
Webserver and DNS hosted by NearlyFreeSpeech.net.

Please be gentle with it.... My daily quota is 100 queries, and I'm not
sure if my code will handle the inevitable rejection from google servers.

Also, not everything is implemented, but I can do a search for 'Keith
Lofstrom' and get some interesting results. Are you an Electrical Engineer,
because my search engine seems to think so!

100 searches per day. Want more? Pay more.

On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 10:10 PM Keith Lofstrom <keithl at kl-ic.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jul 10, 2019 at 07:03:42PM -0700, Jason Barnett wrote:
> > you might want to try www.dogpile.com. It is a meta-search engine, so
> more
> > difficult for any one search provider to skew the results.
> > Also, it appears that the "+" and "-" search modifiers do affect the
> > results. I am not sure if it is because of something that Dogpile does or
> > if one or more of the search engines it uses respects those modifiers.
>
> Thanks, but dogpile still presents way too many irrelevant
> results to dig through.  It's like going to a store for a
> Washington apple, and getting entire agricultural output
> of the Pacific Northwest.  That will certainly include the
> apple you want ... eventually.
>
> If you are looking for a Washington apple +blue, you get
> the same long list of results, when you should get few or
> none.  Google is actually more parsimonious than most.
>
> Free search results are tempting, but there is no place to
> get free extra minutes (or hours, or days, or years) added
> to my life.  I can add minutes by exercise, but I'm not
> doing that when I'm chained to a screen and a web browser.
>
> Someday you will be old, watching the last of the sand slip
> through the hourglass, and regret the time you wasted on
> inconsequential distraction when you were young.  My time
> waste fraction has increased substantially as search
> engines have "evolved".
>
> Keith
>
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