DeuSu
Data
web search engine
SHOW HN2016
229points
139comments
#110of 2,264 in 2016
Top 5%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
13 positive, 36 neutral or asking, 4 mixed, 25 critical, out of 78 comments about the project. Thread score -0.17.
Execution: 2 for, 16 againstIdea: 9 for, 7 againstPerformance: 1 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Interface is pleasant and fast compared to Google.
From 2 comments
The site's interface is just incredibly pleasant compared to Google.com. I really hope the author sticks with it. Unfortunately I'm not sure it's usable right now, searching…
swiley on HNworks really fast!
malinens on HN
Impressive index size and open-source approach.
From 2 comments
Well, I admire the work behind it, and I think the idea is good (especially how having this open source means multiple sites can build on the same data set and get it more and…
CM30 on HNI think projects like this are really important because they help reduce the impression that big server projects are only meant to be done by big companies. The internet is…
jbb555 on HN
Objections
Porn and NSFW results appear for common queries.
From 2 comments
They need to filter porn out of their search results (even for common queries like "hat", there's only porn) and perhaps be more resilient to SEO techniques since it looks like…
laurent123456 on HNIt's written in pascal. Neat. However, it's not very good. If I search for "banana" I get information about a sex shop rather than about bananas.
fnord123 on HN
Relevance is poor; common queries return spam or irrelevant results.
From 3 comments
Well, I admire the work behind it, and I think the idea is good (especially how having this open source means multiple sites can build on the same data set and get it more and…
CM30 on HNThey need to filter porn out of their search results (even for common queries like "hat", there's only porn) and perhaps be more resilient to SEO techniques since it looks like…
laurent123456 on HNFun, but overal quality seems a bit lacking. When I search myself; the top 10 results don't even have my last name ('Kusters') and just shows pages that have the word 'Nick'. I…
NKCSS on HN
Stale index data with dead links.
From 1 comment
In addition to the lack of removing porn and the ordering of the results not priorizing "quality" sources, some of the indexed site data is at least 4-6 months old and has…
mstolpm on HN
Only ASCII and German umlauts indexed; no Cyrillic or Greek.
From 2 comments
DeuSu seems not indexing Cyrillic part of the Internet, and cannot give you insights for Greek, try https://deusu.org/query?q=ελιά . Is it Latin ANSI only index?
ommunist on HNOnly ASCII and German umlauts (äöüß) at the moment. The parser needs rewriting. It was originally written in pre-unicode times. :)
deusu on HN
Requests
Better filtering of spam and SEO content.
From 2 comments
They need to filter porn out of their search results (even for common queries like "hat", there's only porn) and perhaps be more resilient to SEO techniques since it looks like…
laurent123456 on HNSpeaking of which, it seems possible for a computer to detect content which is just mostly marketing, versus content which is not (based on how spam filters work). The search…
thr0waway1239 on HN
Show query-relevant snippets.
From 1 comment
It shows snippets of the web pages under each result; however, generally not the particular snippets that contain the search term. I would think that would be useful.
skykooler on HN
Publish the index and crawl data.
From 1 comment
Is the two billion page index open source? I've been thinking a lot about days recently. Seems to me like Pandora's box is open. Google knows where you live, where you eat, what…
Taek on HN
Questions
Is the index open source and downloadable?
From 1 comment
Is the two billion page index open source? I've been thinking a lot about days recently. Seems to me like Pandora's box is open. Google knows where you live, where you eat, what…
Taek on HN
How is crawling and indexing done on this budget?
From 2 comments
Awesome job! For the life of me I can't figure out how you manage to crawl over a billion web pages (even in 2-3 months), index the data and run the server with €300 per month.…
outpan on HNYou get really good performance on not much hardware. Can you share some technical details? - file formats, particularly the postings - query evaluation strategy - update…
ccleve on HN
Alternatives named
DuckDuckGo
From 1 comment
What makes this better than https://duckduckgo.com ?
rbjorklin on HN
Google
From 1 comment
Alternative general purpose search engines are an exciting idea. It seems a lot like we're about the time when yahoo was dominant and searching was sort of awful. When you…
throwaway13337 on HN
YaCy
From 1 comment
Another open source search engine: http://yacy.net/
ashitlerferad on HN
Gigablast
From 1 comment
Iirc Gigablast had such a feature.
jacquesm on HN