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In a cold day of late winter a new search experience came out

lexy.uno

20 pointsdeniscartin26 comments

This is actually not bad at all. Whenever I want to get a feel for a search engine, I do the following searches:

* 1U vax

* 1U amiga

* vax 5g netbsd

The first tells me whether commercial interests are prioritized over other results. The second tells me whether titles and keywords are prioritized over content. The third, well, one can guess, tests whether the overwhelming number of results about "vax" and/or "5g" means the search engine doesn't even take "netbsd" in to account.

For reference, I have what I think is the only 1U VAX in the world (VAXstation 4000/30 in a 1U case) and I have a 1U Amiga, but it's not the only one. For the last result, I posted on Twitter (before it turned evil) about a VAXstation 4000/90a connecting to the Internet using a 5G hotspot over USB.

So lexy.uno did very well for the first search, did moderately OK for the second, and didn't fail spectacularly for the third. Considering how much other search engines suck, this is quite good!

That is my experience, I did a search for NetBSD. On almost all other search engines it had items I have seem thousands of time. Lexy came up with more interesting articles there where probably buried after pages of ads and AI crap.u

It's just scraping Google. The results are identical to Google's.

Most search engines use similar algorithms, so it's natural for the results to be somewhat similar. However, the key concern is whether they are prioritizing ads over content value, and as far as I’ve used lexy, they are doing pretty well, especially considering they are newly starting.

They're literally scraping Google on the backend and returning the results to the user as if they invented a new search engine. The links are exactly identical to Google's, in the same order.

obv they will be identical that is what i have explained you above main thing is providing what you want , eg if you search for dogs every search engine will show you a dog , you cant expect it to show extraketchup hotdog just because its new search engine

:) Lexy integrate Google

I've been working with a friend for the past 3 months to this new search engine experience. Basically it gives dorking an UI and integrate AI to analyze semantically the content. The platform is still in beta and we are improving day by day, now we just would like to acquire as much feedbacks as possible to launch a useful V1 for all the community

Congrats on V1. Could you please provide more details behind service? How does it work? What is the most unique feature comparing to other ai search engines?

Hi :) thank you!

Lexy's main goal is to provide fast answers with references, the accuracy come from search results as it is focused on that memory (we are improving it day-by-day). The focus is particularly on the user query by enhancing it with proper dorking by understanding his intent.

Of course the main rule is 'NO ADS'.

We are wrapping different search engines, Lexy don't want to compete them, just provide a better experience (clear, simple and referenced).

What does social search do, and why does it use credits?

What index does this search engine use?

Hello there!

Social search finds discussions and people around communities, the credit usage was removed from here and made it free.

The results are coming mostly from Google and Brave search, we are planning to wrap also other search engines (considering still which ones).

Does social search just filter by Reddit and LinkedIn? It doesn't do anything fancier than that? It also doesn't search HN or X?

I searched for "WWE CEO" and it came up with Vince McMahon. He hasn't been CEO since 2022. Nick Khan was CEO for a couple years after Vince left, and Nick Khan now serves as president of the WWE under TKO ownership. Google returns the proper information.

They said it was a "new" search experience. They didn't say it was better.

the plan is to make it better :/

Actually Google return the result: Vince McMahon

also; -Brave -Bing

I am from Rome but I don't think we have different informations in querying ahah

so... what does it do?

i tried one of the example search prompts it gave me "let's discover academic papers" because i figured those prompts would be chosen to display whatever makes this search engine interesting. and i just got a bunch of useless SEO chum links like this: https://paperpile.com/g/academic-search-engines/ exactly like i would expect from any search engine for such a vague query. there's a "quick summary" button at the top, but it doesn't do anything.

why would i use this instead of google?

Hi there! thank you for your feedback!

Lexy has improved a lot since your comment (and it still does), you are right, the first beta skd.

Check it now :)

Looks like it just scrapes Google. Hacker news gets one of these every two weeks.

You are right! Google is one of Lexy's results providers.

A signal that an AI is better than a 5 year old is being able to respond to the following query: "What are your terms and conditions?".

For now, it is failing.

so, where is the "about lexy" info?

putting up a search engine without providing even a hint of info about who is behind it... ..does not inspire trust

Hey there! Thank you for your feedback, we just coded and launched it right away. Shortly will be public a page with further informations about the platform and who is behind :)

what is new with this search engine? the home page has no clue...

better to tell more details, just saying it is new, seem not a good way to prompt it. people may feel, you bring up expectation for nothing, haha...

Thank you for your feedback! The intent was just to test if it would be used, and this was accomplished!

Shortly will come up with more informations about Lexy's foundation.

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