Show HN: Entfer – a search engine that lets you control the ranking of sites

entfer.com

5 points·samuelfekete··5 comments

Entfer is new web search engine that aims to give users more control over the search experience, starting with allowing users to set their own ranking for sites, but also respecting the query terms and parameters defined by the user.

Entfer uses an independent index, to avoid starting off with a strong bias defined by search giants and the SEO industry.

It’s currently at an early prototype stage. The index is growing but still small, and many important features do not exist yet, such as exact phrase searching, but they are coming soon.

Great effort!

It is very fast, the speed reminds me of that of rightdao.com.

Can you give a bit more information about your tech stack, crawling and ranking?

Who is behind is and what is the business model intended to be?

Thanks.

Much of it is not yet well defined or still subject to rapid changes (in terms of tech and business model).

I definitely want search to be free and open, usable without an account. Perhaps there could be an optional paid membership to remove ads, but that is not yet in the pipeline.

www.kagi.com has a similar feature. However your results are far worse, and primarily rely on user calibration whilst Kagi’s are more or less superior to Google’s. Fantastic idea though and a worthy competitor if you can fix the quality of results. How are you generating them?

The index is currently very small, and it will take a few more weeks to get good coverage of the web.

I believe Kagi uses Google and Bing behind the scenes, which allows it to be on par with them, but it also ultimately leads to being more dependent on them, with less flexibility.

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