hatteryjs VS duckduckbang

I can't stand most http libraries (full of mutable state!) and I spend a lot of time making http calls. So I built a functional/immutable http request library which has been dramatically improving my personal quality of life for about 7 years now. No idea if anyone else uses it, but it doesn't really matter.

Java version: https://github.com/stickfigure/hattery

Typescript version: https://github.com/stickfigure/hatteryjs

A lot of the snooping does have an actual role with search - they need to guess the intended domain of the query [1]

Welcome to my side project, a better organized directory of domain specific search engines, based on duckduckgo !bang operators https://github.com/MoserMichael/duckduckbang/blob/master/REA...

Ideally this directory/thesaurus should help you to find a domain specific search engine, without the need of snooping on the part of the search engine. I also auto translated this directory into several languages.

[1] of course they also need the snooping for targeted advertising, but that's a different story!)

I have a catalog of duckduckgo !bang operators; a script is using google translate to translate the UI and site descriptions into several languages; it is better than nothing, but it is not an ideal solution.

https://github.com/MoserMichael/duckduckbang/blob/master/REA...

I didn't manage to automate the use of DeepL in python;

I think that specialised search engines are gaining ground, it has become easier to set one up, thanks to elasticsearch/lucene. They can be quite good, for a limited domain, and they don't have to invade your privacy in order to find out what you are looking for. I think that what is missing are tools like this, that would aid the discovery and use of these search engines. I hope that this will allow them to eat into the market from the 'low end'.

The projects source is here: https://github.com/mosermichael/duckduckbang

Unfortunately they don't invest too much into !bang operators at duckduckgo, however that's my input data...

taking care of google ;-) I have a catalog of duckduckgo !bang operators https://mosermichael.github.io/duckduckbang/html/main.html - i hope that it allows for better discoverability of specialized search engines. The latest feature added is a description for each search engine, just hover over the name, and you get a description derived from the sites meta and title tags.

I think that specialised search engines are gaining ground, it has become easier to set one up, thanks to elasticsearch/lucene. They can be quite good, for a limited domain, and they don't have to invade your privacy in order to find out what you are looking for. I think that what is missing are tools like this, that would aid the discovery of such search engines.

The project source is here: https://github.com/mosermichael/duckduckbang