Hacker News: taxonomyman

New comment by taxonomyman in "Ask HN: What are you working on? (September 2026)"

taxonomyman — Mon, 14 Sep 2026 04:12:14 +0000

MillionShort - A long tail search engine that lets you remove up to the top 1 million most popular websites from results - https://millionshort.com

I posted Million Short 14 years ago to HN and the search engine has been largely the same since then. Now working on a pretty major overhaul: Launching our own decent sized independent index along with some (I think) cool & useful features.

The search requires a paid account currently although I plan to post a Show HN soon that won't require any account or payment.

Retirement: Bing Search APIs on August 12, 2025 – End of an Era?

taxonomyman — Tue, 13 May 2025 03:07:30 +0000

Article URL: https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/updates

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43969359

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

New comment by taxonomyman in "The next Google"

taxonomyman — Tue, 05 Apr 2022 22:08:31 +0000

Likely not the next Google but wanted to share: https://sanction.millionshort.com

SANCTION is an experimental search engine powered by the popular experimental search engine Million Short – an experiment within an experiment. (This is alpha and buggy!) With SANCTION you can choose to remove results from any Country you wish, for whatever reason.

Result removal is based on both the ccTLD and geographic location of where the page is hosted (a 1st degree connection). We have also provided the ability to remove results based on the ccTLD and location the scripts a particular page includes via script tags (a 2nd degree connection).

Show HN: Imagine a search engine where you can sanction results by country

taxonomyman — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 22:21:24 +0000

Article URL: https://sanction.millionshort.com/?hn0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30912733

Points: 2

# Comments: 1

Show HN: Sanction – Imagine a search engine where you can sanction by country

taxonomyman — Mon, 04 Apr 2022 14:22:43 +0000

Article URL: https://sanction.millionshort.com

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30906954

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by taxonomyman in "Ask HN: Is 'search' a solved problem?"

taxonomyman — Wed, 13 Jun 2018 14:55:38 +0000

We're trying. Kindly see https://millionshort.com

New comment by taxonomyman in "Million Short allows users to remove up to the top 1M sites from a search set"

taxonomyman — Mon, 08 Jan 2018 01:15:37 +0000

We're actively working to add lots of features on Million Short in 2018. I'd be happy to add any feature requests to our roadmap planning.

Why Google May Not Always Be King of the Mountain

taxonomyman — Fri, 05 Jan 2018 19:42:59 +0000

Article URL: https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/306881

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16081049

Points: 5

# Comments: 0

This Search Engine Helps You Find What Google Is Missing

taxonomyman — Tue, 02 Jan 2018 18:32:47 +0000

Article URL: https://forbes.com/sites/julianmitchell/2017/12/31/this-search-engine-startup-helps-you-find-what-google-is-missing

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16054050

Points: 3

# Comments: 0

Can a Search Engine Pop Our Filter Bubbles?

taxonomyman — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:33:42 +0000

Article URL: http://www.cmswire.com/digital-experience/can-a-search-engine-pop-our-filter-bubbles/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11448576

Points: 6

# Comments: 0

Show HN: Search and filter the web with attributes you've never seen before

taxonomyman — Wed, 06 Jan 2016 17:04:53 +0000

Article URL: https://millionshort.com/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10851686

Points: 11

# Comments: 1

New comment by taxonomyman in "What "viable search engine competition" really looks like"

taxonomyman — Sun, 05 Jan 2014 06:12:52 +0000

Web search with up to the top million most popular web sites removed: https://millionshort.com/

New comment by taxonomyman in "A search engine that removes the 1 million most popular web sites from its index"

taxonomyman — Wed, 27 Nov 2013 14:59:51 +0000

We've been quietly working away on MillionShort - please stay tuned.

ICTIR13 - 4th International Conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval

taxonomyman — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 15:09:23 +0000

Article URL: http://ictir2013.org/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6476659

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

Ask HN: Where/how do you back up your "Million Dollar" source code?

taxonomyman — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 03:39:04 +0000

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5484083

Points: 4

# Comments: 4

New comment by taxonomyman in " Blocked Sites is discontinued"

taxonomyman — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 20:35:43 +0000

You can remove up to the top ones million sites with MillionShort: http://millionshort.com/about.html and you can specify individual sites to remove via settings: http://millionshort.com/settings.php

Show HN: Long tail web search meets voice recognition

taxonomyman — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 18:19:24 +0000

Article URL: http://millionshort.com/about.php?voicesearch

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5183636

Points: 2

# Comments: 0

New comment by taxonomyman in "[dead]"

taxonomyman — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 21:07:51 +0000

Feedback would be awesome. The voice data is obtained via Flash for now.

Show HN: A DNS server that removes the top million domains

taxonomyman — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:39:47 +0000

Article URL: http://millionshort.com/dns.html

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4953362

Points: 48

# Comments: 36

New comment by taxonomyman in "The Web Is A Mess"

taxonomyman — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:58 +0000

Glad you like it. We'll be realeasing some interesting features in the coming days and weeks.