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Re: "Which search service do you recommend in Gemini space?"
@Addison Imho, the problem is not with your capsule but with geminispace.info. De-indexing would technically help, but it kinda defeats the purpose of searching to begin with. We really should just be moving over to better search engines.
2023-09-01 · 7 days ago
@IO Thank you for saying so; and I don't feel singled-out, so no harm done. I don't often use search engines on gemini so this wasn't something that had crossed my mind.
In my opinion it's for the best that the gemtext documents themselves are not indexed. The Topics and Authors listings will still be indexed, so folks who want to search for a particular subject will be able to find what they need with less background noise. As a reader I would rather get sent straight to '/topic/Abc' rather than have to sift through the 200 articles that happen to mention the term I entered.
@skyjake @Acidus Kennedy is very impressive, I'm bookmarking this. Thank you for the recommendation.
Kennedy has by far the most features and therefore is able to provide the best search results. If the number of results are too many, filters can realiably weed out unwanted results.
Other search engines have only a subset of the features of Kennedy and don't lead to the same reliable results.
The only problem with Kennedy is that it crawls only manually and the last crawl has been on 2023-07-23.
I created a page with meta information about different search engines and crawlers, which are not always available on the respective search engine's pages:
— Meta Information About Geminispace Crawlers
2023-09-02 · 6 days ago
@michaelnordmeyer Thanks for the link.
1 hour ago
Which search service do you recommend in Gemini space? — I’m currently using [gemini link] as my default in Lagrange. At the moment - and this could just be the nature of the contents of Gemini space currently - I get a lot of results for a library flooding my results. The results contain the terms I searched for, but that domain won’t have what I want. What are the alternatives and is there much difference anyway? Please let me know your preference.