Didyougogo
Data
search engine
SHOW HN2018
269points
124comments
#105of 2,155 in 2018
Top 5%of 2018 by points
How HN took it
MixedNo clear lean
12 positive, 27 neutral or asking, 6 mixed, 24 critical, out of 69 comments about the project. Thread score -0.20.
Execution: 0 for, 12 againstIdea: 8 for, 3 againstPerformance: 1 for, 4 againstDesign: 1 for, 2 againstDocs: 1 for, 2 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fast queries and a nostalgic, minimalist feel.
From 4 comments
I'm Marcus, founder of Didyougogo and author of the software behind it. For the past ten years I've been trying to improve my programming and math skills to get to a level where…
apo on HNIt's fast! I like the technical detail - index too limited. Searched Red Dead Redemption 2 - no game info Searched "bobs" - no bobs
josephv on HNThe minimalistic layout is a pleasure to use compared to AltaVista's bloated UI.
keketi on HNI love it - well done. As always, the question is how it scales.
gunkaaa on HN
Ambitious idea and a good sign for search competition.
From 3 comments
Interesting idea. Isn't it a little late to slay Alta Vista though? :) I searched for apple. Top result was the archive.org macos that showed up here on HN recently, 2nd and 3rd…
NeedMoreTea on HNI really like this idea, and the very simple implementation - big things start small. We need more search engines, including ones which are not supported by advertising. Thanks…
golangnews on HNThis is really cool. I love the feel of it and the ideas of running both on prem as well as oublic instances, letting them cooperate and teaming up with companies. I know…
reitanqild on HN
Objections
Index is tiny, so most searches return irrelevant or no results.
From 4 comments
The index is super tiny. A search for "the" got 112 results. Seems like a quick way to explore the entire index. Also it indexes pages twice if you submit them twice, so that…
SyneRyder on HNI searched for "Cnn" and got 0 results. I searched for "Amazon" and got a five random results, including the IMDB page for "Rambo, Part 2." If this were really like AltaVista,…
spchampion2 on HNGot zero relevant results. Not even sure how the results came back, as the words weren’t in there. Tried “Taoist tai chi,” then “Taoism”. Love the ambition, but a long way to go…
azinman2 on HNDefinitely some ambitious goals. There's nothing bad about that, but this has an awfully long way to go - e.g. searching for "hacker news" works fine, searching for almost…
pebers on HN
Unicode and non-ASCII searches fail or error.
From 2 comments
As others have commented, love the ambitiousness of this! However, Unicode searches do not seem to work at all -- not just "中文" but also even "français" gives an error. Unicode…
asaibx on HNKudos for your courage to make your great ambitions public from the start. 1. Does the site do any crawling on its own, or is the public index only fed from submissions? 2. It…
tcmb on HN
Served over HTTP without HTTPS.
From 1 comment
A search engine without https, I think I'll stick with Google for now.
dewey on HN
Name is unappealing.
From 2 comments
Awesome, but man, that name really needs some work. It sounds like I'm asking a two-year-old whether he's been on the potty.
oh-moses on HNName makes it sound like it's related to DDG. Definetely need a better one.
nasredin on HN
Requests
Add a crawler so the index grows beyond submissions.
From 1 comment
Kudos for your courage to make your great ambitions public from the start. 1. Does the site do any crawling on its own, or is the public index only fed from submissions? 2. It…
tcmb on HN
Add HTTPS support.
From 2 comments
A search engine without https, I think I'll stick with Google for now.
dewey on HNHmm. I tried to add a page for "duck", but it doesn't seem to work, and very time I search for "duck", I still see a bunch of anime websites. Why are those anime websites even on…
projektir on HN
Add a license to the source code.
From 1 comment
Please put a license on the source code. Right now, by default, it's "all rights reserved" so no one can use it or do anything with it.
mkl on HN
Better name.
From 2 comments
Awesome, but man, that name really needs some work. It sounds like I'm asking a two-year-old whether he's been on the potty.
oh-moses on HNName makes it sound like it's related to DDG. Definetely need a better one.
nasredin on HN
Questions
Is there technical documentation beyond the source code?
From 1 comment
I'm Marcus, founder of Didyougogo and author of the software behind it. For the past ten years I've been trying to improve my programming and math skills to get to a level where…
apo on HN
How does it scale?
From 1 comment
I love it - well done. As always, the question is how it scales.
gunkaaa on HN
Why use this over DuckDuckGo?
From 1 comment
This is neat & impressive! Why would I use this over duckduckgo? (Assuming that we're some time on and the index is comparable?)
sleepychu on HN
Alternatives named
Google
From 1 comment
A search engine without https, I think I'll stick with Google for now.
dewey on HN
DuckDuckGo
From 1 comment
This is neat & impressive! Why would I use this over duckduckgo? (Assuming that we're some time on and the index is comparable?)
sleepychu on HN
Yacy
From 1 comment
Most of the goals can be already achieved using the Yacy project. Also it's already got an existing, massive, distributed index.
viraptor on HN
Elasticsearch
From 1 comment
"is there a reason this doesn't have a spider" Yes, server capacity. Once I have a better hosting situation I'll start crawling. Thank you, I've tried to be neat this time…
misterman0 on HN