As I've used the website before, I was surprised to see a larger number of search results than usual. Turns out https://wiby.org/ is distinct from the older version, https://wiby.me/, which only indexes few sites.
Wiby.org is my homepage. I occasionally click "surprise me..." to view 90s style websites. I find them more interesting than scrolling though modern stuff.
I really like the wiby.me version of this. It displays results only from early web style pages; a great throwback to an era where not everything was "corporate".
I used to know of a search engine that supported a bunch of added functionality for searching some selected popular sites. Like "wp whatever" would search just Wikipedia. It supported many man little command shortcuts.
It was popular among dwm/i3 users, and I have forgotten it :(
I was a fan of MacOS performing searches with Command + Spacebar, so on Linux I scripted a similar popup-prompt that would open Firefox and feed my input to this search engine.
”Bangs are shortcuts that quickly take you to search results on other sites. For example, when you know you want to search on another site like Wikipedia or Amazon, our bangs get you there fastest. A search for
!w filter bubble
will take you directly to Wikipedia... [DDG offers] 13,505 bangs and counting...”
OMG! I can actually search for something and not end up in some conglomerate corporate non informational results. This is a dream! How are you able to filter out all the garbage.
It is mixing Wiby's index with pages from Bings index. Wiby has criteria for the types of pages that can be part of its index, and those pages must be submitted directly by users.
wow, I really like this! I'm really fed up with what google has turned into and miss when search was just a simple list of blue links w/o the unnecessary noise. Will start using this, thanks!
