Mwmbl: Free, open-source and non-profit search engine

You're being argumentative for no good reason. He was suggesting a name change to improve the likelihood of a large userbase, not a change for his own convenience.

A stack of old laptops since they are too good to throw away since I buy good stuff and am a Linux user, so even my 10 year old machines are actually still great. So I use them for vacation to take a clean wiped machine, for things like attaching to a 3d printer or being a part of my electronics workbench or out in the garage. Old android tablets and phones which get used about the same way, vacation, device interface. Not to mention, a smaller but similar collection belonging to my wife. These are just the things I might search in a web browser on.

There are actually browsers also built in to 4 TVs, also in the rokus and google TVs attached to those same TVs, also in the Xbox and ps3. But I won't even count any of those. I have actually used them, but I'll give you those for free since I don't actually use those browsers very much.

Also that just reminded me that all of the old devices are fairly regularly getting reinstalled with some new version of a linux or bsd distro fresh every time I pick one back up, so, no configured profiles.

The windows partition on my main machine is frequently reinstalled since I experiment with trying to use either a partition or Frameworks custom usbc module or a regular usbc external drive, or just a partition on a bigger faster external drive. That's one physical device but a few different OS's, and most of those OS's besides my main daily driver get moved around and reinstalled a lot so they are always new and unconfigured., yet, I still need to use them, and that means I use a browser to search from within them.

My kobo, and 3 or so other eink readers. Which, again, occasionally gets reinstalled, so even the one device needs to be set up more than once.

The only reason I don't have to set up a new phone every 6 months is because I value a headphone jack more than most everyone else. So if you would say my usage pattern is an outlier, I would say, 1 so what? Outliers exist and could even be argued to outnumber the center peak of the bell curve, and 2 some of my outlier usage pattern goes the opposite way, like using the same phone for 5 years.

And then of course I use many machines which are not mine. And this is not even counting that my work used to involve some amount of user it support where I would use a users desk or a hot desk at a customer site, I just mean my own personal normal activity is on many other machines besides my own, including relatives, friends, & public machines.

I had to type "google" (back when I used google primarily, and it wasn't already everyone's default) countless times, even though it was the home page on my own main machine.

This question didn't really even deserve the dignity of any answer it is so obtuse.

It surprisingly resembles Swedish language a bit.

Heh, I look forward to the future version of "en tant que modèle linguistique, je ne peux pas traduire ce texte" or in this specific case "fel model iaith, ni allaf gyfieithu'r testun hwnnw"

Most implementations of this have a race towards generalities.

The biggest problem used to be when seemingly the whole internet was satisfied with an answer that is extremely wrong and broken when you do it.

Chatgpt can work though this without getting into a weird markov cycle maybe half the time which is great.

Patterns like "Hey I tried that. It still doesn't work, can you give me another option"

Google's problem is with the conflict of interest inherent in their business model. It prevents them from doing what they need to do in order to decisively tackle the search engine spam problem they're struggling with.

It would be very easy to improve Google's search result quality by removing their promoted results, and then penalizing websites with ads and adtech.

Before I kagi this (not even google, just kagi!) shall we wager on whether there is or is not at least one, likely several such documents? Come on.

> who would publish such a document?

The banks? In this case. Because if you do the manual searching, you will “manually” go to each bank site, go to accounts, business section and read, a good search engine will do that for me, no middle man (aka some 3rd party sites) and summarize it based on my query, a bad search engine however, will look into a 3rd party website that already created a list, recommended some based on affiliate links, boosted itself in the results by playing the SEO keywords game.

Not for long! Someone ought to make a Popplers fastfood chain.

But it's a normal word, unlike "mwmbl" (I had to look it up, couldn't remember where the "b" and "w" goes after some seconds).

There's more to it than that.

What if instead of crawling the php generation of database rows with a bunch of cruft, the administrator published some kind of schema with scraping and querying rules and you could alternatively make a single call to capture all of the data in a sematic schema.

You can still do all the stuff you're talking about but it could make search more coherent.

An entry for that humans and an entry for the computers.

You can't trust everybody like this sure, but say imdb, discogs, wikipedia, all of which provide database dumps anyways (eg: https://datasets.imdbws.com/). That's what I'm advocating for revisiting. Lots of legit sites such as universities, newspapers, public records offices...

You could even have a search toggle "screened sources" or whatever for the ones that make the cut

Yes!