Million Short: A search engine that removes the topM most popular sites (opens in new tab)

WOW. First search was a success. I remember having issues finding good resources on "windows driver development debugging" in the past so I figured why not see what comes up. These days you get a bunch of unrelated things about troubleshooting drivers and whatnot, depending on the day.

The top results after pruning the normal top 100 were great - relevant, helpful, insightful, if not a little dated (but still good info).

Going to keep this in my back pocket and try it out later.

I've been trying MS out for a couple weeks. The default search results are very good - i.e., you get what your search terms asked for, near the top - something the better-known sites are getting worse at, as they try to be all things to all people ... and in the process second-guessing or just ignoring carefully chosen terms.

At times "removing the top sites" helps drill down into more obscure sources ... still unsure about the intent there.

For the anecdote, I often add "reddit" in a Google search and I often have good results.

I remember than searching for python related questions often has the same website as top result, instead of the official documentation.

I love this idea. The other search engines are just add machines now. Bring back the original Internet!

This was great, the first few results got me great content with fewer annoying ads!

Looks like a very interesting project. Thanks for sharing it!