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taxonomymanon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

Seeing as how the search is already built around filtering against SEO, I actually read your comment as SSO (single sign on) - could be a good proxy/filter for "Enterprise" or B2B sites. I'll plan to add an SSO filter.

taxonomymanon Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)

MillionShort - A long tail search engine that lets you remove up to the top 1 million most popular websites from results - https://millionshort.com

I posted Million Short 14 years ago to HN and the search engine has been largely the same since then. Now working on a pretty major overhaul: Launching our own decent sized independent index along with some (I think) cool & useful features.

The search requires a paid account currently although I plan to post a Show HN soon that won't require any account or payment.

taxonomymanon The next Google

Likely not the next Google but wanted to share: https://sanction.millionshort.com

SANCTION is an experimental search engine powered by the popular experimental search engine Million Short – an experiment within an experiment. (This is alpha and buggy!) With SANCTION you can choose to remove results from any Country you wish, for whatever reason.

Result removal is based on both the ccTLD and geographic location of where the page is hosted (a 1st degree connection). We have also provided the ability to remove results based on the ccTLD and location the scripts a particular page includes via script tags (a 2nd degree connection).

taxonomymanon Ask HN: Is 'search' a solved problem?

We're trying. Kindly see https://millionshort.com

taxonomymanon Million Short allows users to remove up to the top 1M sites from a search set

We're actively working to add lots of features on Million Short in 2018. I'd be happy to add any feature requests to our roadmap planning.

taxonomymanon What "viable search engine competition" really looks like

Web search with up to the top million most popular web sites removed: https://millionshort.com/

taxonomymanon A search engine that removes the 1 million most popular web sites from its index

We've been quietly working away on MillionShort - please stay tuned.

taxonomymanon Blocked Sites is discontinued

You can remove up to the top ones million sites with MillionShort: http://millionshort.com/about.html and you can specify individual sites to remove via settings: http://millionshort.com/settings.php

taxonomymanon [dead]

Feedback would be awesome. The voice data is obtained via Flash for now.

taxonomymanon The Web Is A Mess

Glad you like it. We'll be realeasing some interesting features in the coming days and weeks.

taxonomymanon 33 Percent Of Google Users Will Use Bing More After ‘Bing It On’ Challenge

Please give the "Million Short It On" challenge a try at http://www.MillionShortItOn.com challenge a try. You might be surprised by Million Short for long tail searches.

taxonomymanon Stop validating email addresses with your complex regex

I rememeber back in the day when email addresses like hello@[8.8.8.8] were valid..

taxonomymanon Bing vs. Google

Give http://www.millionshort.com a try for long tail. Set filter to exlude top million sites.

taxonomymanon Show HN: Millionshort, 3 months later

Not really duplicate - that was the intial post 3 months ago. The site has gone through a complete overhaul with new features/functions like News Search, Image Search, Inverse via MillionTall.com etc. etc.

taxonomymanon Show HN: Millionshort, 3 months later

We'll be adding https shortly.

taxonomymanon Show HN: Millionshort, 3 months later

Any feedback would be awesome.

taxonomymanon Show HN: Million Short - 7 Days Later

  -New design: Disover and Search button interface

  -New browser plug in with Autocomplete

  -New feature - SiteBoost, push the sites you like to top of results

  -Traffic still strong

Feedback would be great, especially on the two button interface.

taxonomymanon Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2

Awesome. Would you be able to share? We'll post it to the site..

taxonomymanon Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2

Thx. Yes, many crawlers and indexers. Many.

taxonomymanon Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2

Added to TODO list.

taxonomymanon Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2

Bing. We are working one some custom crawling/indexing to enhance.

taxonomymanon Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2

Hard to say. The goal was to execute on an idea which seems to be both useful and unique. Get feedback, reiterate and improve. Rinse and repeat.

taxonomymanon Show HN: Million Short Day 2 and 171,686 unique searches later - Version 2

Thx to everyone for overwhelming support and feedback. We lauched V2 today on Day 2.

______Version 2 additions: (ordered by demand)

-Open search browser plug in

-Settings to Add sites (like Wikipedia.com back in)

-Settings to exlude even more sites

-favicon added

-Quick links to alter 'removal slices'

-Settings for Adult filtering

-Removed sites now in alpha sort order

______Quick stats:

171,686 Total Unique Searches

148,477 Absolute Unique Visitors

420,963 Pageviews

peaked at 1,500 concurrent users

+plus:

Got some HN Love

Got some Reddit Love

Got some Techcrunch Love

taxonomymanon Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

Awesome.

taxonomymanon Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

8 hours later, we just launched our first re-design. Thanks for all the great feedback and support. More to come.

taxonomymanon Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

Maybe think of Million Short as more of a discovery engine. We're not saying a quality site can't be popular.

taxonomymanon Show HN: Imagine a search engine that removed top million sites from its index

The number of results aren't a factor. We are removing results from sites that are in the list of top 1 million most popular web sites. Hope that helps.