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Blog for searchmysite.net
Company blog · blog.searchmysite.netwebbusiness
Blog for searchmysite.net is the company blog at blog.searchmysite.net, writing about web and business. Since 2020, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (4) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for the technical details of building and running Search My Site, an independent search engine for personal and independent websites, including milestones and spam problems.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog for searchmysite.net - the open source search engine and search as a service for user-submitted personal and independent websites
What Hacker News says?
Looking at the blog ( https://blog.searchmysite.net/posts/milestone-1000th-site-in... ) I think very little of the internet is in this search engine. Its difficult to gauge the quality of the engine itself at this point with so little content in it. What I can say is that even remotely presenting the system as a general purpose internet search engine like the UI from https://searchmysite.net/ does is going to give p…
Comment linking /posts/milestone-1000th-site-indexed/
on “Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots”Submitted Almost all searches on my independent search engine are now from SEO spam bots as a story · 696 points
HN discussionThank you very much for sharing this project. After digging around, I found this blog post of yours to be the most insightful into the technical details about the search engine, https://blog.searchmysite.net/posts/searchmysite.net-buildin...
Comment linking /posts/searchmysite.net-building-a-simple-search-for-non-commercial-websites/
on “Search My Site – open-source search engine for personal and independent websites”Submitted Advertising and search engines: When it is okay to mix and when it is not as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> Does anyone here have experience trying to build a search engine, even a "boutique" one, for the web? Is it something an individual could conceivably operate on their own? Yes, I've built a curated boutique search engine, such as that described in the article. Short summary is that yes, it is possible for one person to build a useful search engine nowadays, if they don't attempt to index the whole of the internet…
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on “We need more boutique search engines”This matches my experience. I ran one of my side-projects on AWS for a couple of years before switching to Hetzner - AWS was around £35 a month while Hetzner was around £7 a month, so Hetzner was around 80% cheaper for an equivalent service[0]. The other big thing was all the little costs in AWS - it took 2 months to get the AWS bill down to £0 due to all the hidden extras like backups and Elastic IP address. [0] Fu…
Comment linking /posts/migrating-off-aws-has-reduced-running-costs-by-80/
on “AWS and Azure Are at Least 4x–10x More Expensive Than Hetzner”