I've tried AndiSearch over the last several days since seeing it mentioned in an HN discussion. I've tried this search engine with a great variety of search terms, technical, bland, obscure, common and it performs better than DDG and as well or better than Google. As a plus bonus, there is an option to return search results in HN formatting, which I find incredibly easy to parse.
Note: This was an unsolicited post. I am just really impressed with this engine.
I've been impressed with AndiSearch so far. I use a mix of Google and DDG and this seems to do a great job at search relevancy. I'm still hesitant on a few things before making this my default search engine but I'm really excited to see where AndiSearch goes.
- How does it handle privacy concerns? Personal information collection, tracker-blocking, etc.
- Technical search. Google isn't perfect at this either, but sometimes I want to search for a specific piece of code/error message and resort to appending "site:stackoverflow.com" to Google. But this limits my search results to SO. It seems like the search input for this kind of thing is pretty different than regular, "conversational" search and there's a need for a tech-specific search engine that caters towards code searching/technical string parsing.
- Not a huge fan of the "conversational" UI. I see "Assistant Mode" in the menu but I can't seem to disable it. Maybe I'm missing something. I do like the simplicity of having just a free-form search bar. There's a higher bar of entry for use if I have to learn how to interact with the search bot.
Its still in alpha I hear. I don't find the assistant mode that useful either, but perhaps this is a way to develop both an assistant and search engine simultaneously?
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[ 0.16 ms ] story [ 21.4 ms ] threadNote: This was an unsolicited post. I am just really impressed with this engine.
- How does it handle privacy concerns? Personal information collection, tracker-blocking, etc.
- Technical search. Google isn't perfect at this either, but sometimes I want to search for a specific piece of code/error message and resort to appending "site:stackoverflow.com" to Google. But this limits my search results to SO. It seems like the search input for this kind of thing is pretty different than regular, "conversational" search and there's a need for a tech-specific search engine that caters towards code searching/technical string parsing.
- Not a huge fan of the "conversational" UI. I see "Assistant Mode" in the menu but I can't seem to disable it. Maybe I'm missing something. I do like the simplicity of having just a free-form search bar. There's a higher bar of entry for use if I have to learn how to interact with the search bot.
https://andisearch.com/commands/ gives an overview of some commands. Looks like you can search a site like this:
'search stackoverflow for python array indexing' or `search reddit for pathfinder 2e hex crawl`
or ~e site:cnn.com +"mars rover" for exact