Questions tagged [search-engine]
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Case-sensitive search engine
I'm looking for a web search engine that can distinguish strings that differ only in case. As an example, "GaP", "gap", and "GAP" should be treated like different strings,...
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Is there any publically available web search engine that uses semantic search?
I suspect there isn't any existent search engine that actually works, that uses semantic search and actually understands sentences and matches the topic of indexed web pages with the meaning of the ...
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How can I find example usage of specific unicode characters?
I'm interested in learning how particular Unicode characters are used. I want a tool which allows me to search for a particular character or code point and then will show me that character and some ...
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Find certain websites that I visited
My question might be off-topic but I've been looking for hours and don't know where else to ask.
Obviously, the choice would be to look in my browser history but there is nothing I'm looking for. I ...
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Blog search engines: are any of them still alive?
All 15 blog search engines pointed by Wikipedia are long dead: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Blog_search_engines .
Is there any working today? I'd like to engage with the current blogosphere, ...
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Alternatives to Yahoo! BOSS
So, for all of my site search/search engine needs, I have been using Google Custom Search. But, recently I've been looking for an alternative that gives me both Image & Web search capabilities. ...
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Tool for searching in HTML and JS files, and I want to see some useful content in search results
I have hundreds of HTML and JavaScript files and I want to search for some useful data for me in their contents.
I tried to use Spotlight and Finder, but these tools are not informative. Spotlight ...
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Bash command line args Tab-auto-completion via a data service
Think of an action to one of the several thousands of services.
I want to narrow down service selection via Tab-completion by specifying one by one:
prod, test, dev
country (AU, US, ...)
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Search engine for geotagged images, (drone) videos, etc
This would just be a search engine that indexes EXIF tags, etc., lets you view a map, and any geotagged images or videos would be shown as points on the map.
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iOS search engine app with “save domain” feature
I want an iOS app where you search in a search engine and collect results.
Description:
Not a full-featured browser
Exactly like the Google app except it can save web domains
If I see a website such ...
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An open source software/ecosystem I can use to quickly create faceted search UIs for CSV files in the range of 20 - 100 GBs?
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I have some large CSV files between 20 GB to 100 GB. The data can be useful to a lot of non technical people, each of whom will only be interested in a slice of data. I could distribute the ...
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Blog Search Engines : is there any of them still alive (2022)?
All Blog Search Engines pointed by Wikipedia are LONG DEAD: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Blog_search_engines .
Is there any working today? I'd like to engage with the current blogosphere, ...
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Need file database that can search file filenames, metadata, and text content (e.g. PDFs)
I am looking to build a database of many files including PDF, XLSS, text, image, and other file formats. I need a way to search these files for content and metadata, while providing easy access to the ...
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Opting out of PageRank
Every search engine I have seen is based of some form of PageRank. PageRank is a popularity contest: websites that have links to them get more popular, more so if the websites linking to them are ...
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Is there some software to search for photos based on a GPS coordinate?
I have done this:
Determined the standard GPS coordinates for a spot right outside where I live.
I'm trying to do the following:
Input this into some kind of search engine.
Get back photos whose ...
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