This does look rather interesting. I've been using sites that run
searx-ng for some time now. At the moment, because it's a metasearch
tool, I seem to get better results, and it has settings for infinite
scrolling (none of that next page crap) as well as opening links in
separate tabs by default. It also has headings for each search result,
which I find easier to navigate, although alexandria.org does allow me
to just press tab or shift+tab to navigate between results. It doesn't
yet include settings that will allow new results to appear just by
scrolling without having to select a page number, a throwback to 1995,
and it could benefit from allowing me to open a resulting page in a new
tab automatically, although I guess I could just use the function that
opens a link in a new browser window for that. This does look a bit like
presearch without the annoying keyword ads and the whole crypto thing
they're trying to do, making alexandria.org a lot more clean and easy to
use. I also find that searx-ng seems to have some issues with titling
search results correctly as well. I think the best thing about
alexandria.org is that it's not just another metasearch, which means
that it doesn't search Google and Microsoft and the like to bring search
results, it instead has its own crawler. This means that right now it
will give very few search results, but over time it should evolve to
become better than anything else currently available. Just give me the
header navigation between results and the ability to keep scrolling down
the single page to see more results instead of having to keep track of
pages where I only see a very small number of search results at one
time. Yeah I guess Twitter spoiled me when they started allowing me to
just go down one page instead of having to click to page after page
after page if I wanted to see more than a few things at once, and then
Google and DuckDuckGo started doing the same thing, so now I just expect
it as default or easily configurable behavior. Call me simple, but I
really like just being able to press h h h h h h h h h 250 times to get
to that one search result that isn't at the top of a proprietary ranking
algorithm and without having to find the next page link or keep track of
which number I was on. But since alexandria.org is as new as it is, I'm
sure this is something that can be looked at in the future. For now, I
mostly care about being able to find more things that are related to my
search query, and that will take time also, since it's a real search
engine instead of something that just searches search engines and pulls
down all their irrelevant results ranked according to their mysterious
algorithms. It needs a bit of work, but this is indeed a great find.
~Kyle
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