Feep! search | About | Blog A web search engine for programmers Example searches: hello world jq modify value INTERCAL rspec expect to change and change fish tutorial search engine design php maximum string length djb redo replacement for make jpeg optimization ISO 8601 About Feep! search is a web search … Read more
Why? Despite being a backbone of our digital economy, web search is dominated by a few big tech gatekeepers. Thus, information as public good, with free, unbiased and transparent access is not under public control anymore. This imbalance of the … Read more
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On August 23rd, a Slack chat for former employees of the payments company Stripe began filling with accounts of strange queries about an ex-colleague. “I’m getting inundated with paid interview requests,” one of the former employees, Dan Foster, wrote. Another, … Read more
Early in on my SQL journey, I thought that searching for a piece of text in the database mostly involved querying like this: SELECT col FROM table WHERE col LIKE ‘%some_value%’; Then I would throw in some wildcard operators or … Read more
Preface This is a cursory review of all the indexing search engines I have been able to find. The three dominant English search engines with their own indexesnote 1 are Google, Bing, and Yandex (GBY). Many alternatives to GBY exist, but … Read more
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Something that never fails to make us cringe is when we stumble across advertising for basement-level SEO firms. These are the sorts of places whose idea of SEO-focused content for their own websites amounts to, “Number #1 SEO firm web … Read more
Wikipedia sure is popular. The most popular articles in a given week routinely get millions of views. But with 6 million plus articles, Wikipedia has plenty of room for articles about topics which are profoundly obscure, even downright boring. I … Read more
Your mental model when searching for X should be “I want to see the best essays on X”. Blog Surf only indexes personal blogs and newsletters. The vast majority of blogs are a single individual writing. There are no large … Read more