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0 pointsrileyteige11y ago0 comments

In no way do I intend to discourage your efforts. I was offering an example in which your search engine seems unable to identify the context that I had in mind.

What are some of your plans for search engine improvement? Ad-free aside, why should I fund your project? DuckDuckGo seems to offer itself up as a great alternative to Google and I have enjoyed its clean UI immensely for several months now. What is my incentive to help drive your project?

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deusu11y ago· 8 in thread

It's open-source: https://github.com/MichaelSchoebel/OpenAcoon

This is currently written in Pascal. I'm in the process of rewriting it JavaScript/Node.js. First part for the rewrite is the ranking. That should be done in about a week or two.

NhanH11y ago

Pascal! Now that's a name I haven't heard in a while.

You should write a blog post about how you write a search engine in Pascal. That would at least reach top spot on HN!

deusu11y ago

Given that I'm in the process of rewriting it in JavaScript I'm not sure about that... On the other hand it's probably worth a try. Thanks for the suggestion.

frik11y ago

He wrote a blog post there: http://geekregator.com/2015-01-05-welcome_to_geekregator_com...

xai3luGi11y ago

Have you considered joining the YaCy community? It is another open source search engine.

http://www.yacy.net/

deusu11y ago

I know of YaCy. It's written in Java which I'm almost completely unfamiliar with.

But I know and follow the YaCy-community. Like myself the lead person of YaCy is located in Germany. We even share the same first name. :)

fiatjaf11y ago

What about Faroo? http://www.faroo.com/

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e12e11y ago

Having a look at the source ... why are you rewriting this in node/js? Wouldn't Ada (or nim) make more sense, given the initial design is implemented in Pascal?

deusu11y ago

Many of the design choices that I made many, many years ago aren't valid anymore. So it won't just be a port to a different language, but a complete redesign and rewrite. Which means that regarding the amount of work, it doesn't really matter which language I use.

JavaScript seems to have the biggest community at the moment. Plus I kinda like Node.js. That's why I'm going that way.

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