How about a 'Hooktube' type site for google search results?

2    18 Oct 2017 21:31 by u/stillinit

Maybe one with it's own algorithm but rips data from google's servers. Is this possible? Startpage sucks btw.

14 comments

0 u/Reddit_traitor 18 Oct 2017 21:59

i was going to tell that's what startpage does.

i do agree startpages sucks.

then there is https://searx.me which always errors out every other search it's annyoing.

you just need a proxy setup to search google like startpage does

0 u/stillinit [OP] 18 Oct 2017 22:29

Just pulling the results isn't enough. There needs to be a new algorithm written that manipulates theirs, to rank sites fairly. This would result in a cat an mouse game unless everything was backed up, in which it would have a nice foundation of a google fork to build upon.

0 u/Reddit_traitor 18 Oct 2017 22:31

i know a lot of search results are based of users history so this may cause issues.

so sounds like you'd have build your own competing search algorithm.

edit: wrong word used

0 u/stillinit [OP] 18 Oct 2017 22:53

Yeah. Search has been shit since it's been based on user history. That's the problem.

0 u/Reddit_traitor 18 Oct 2017 22:59

it's either

a. use what google lets use b. build your own search engine

sadly that's what it come to.

0 u/theMETA 18 Oct 2017 23:21

Sadly? I don't understand your connotation, here. This is literally how it's always been...

Not happy following herds for food? Settle and create a farming society.

Don't like the king, or his unfair taxes? Have a revolution and start a new country based on democracy.

Don't like the government impeding on your rights and forcing you to abolish slavery? Secede from the Union, create a Confederacy, and fight for your independence/sovereignty.

It's always been a system where you use what's given to you, and if you don't like it, it's up to you to re-do it yourself... Well, almost always... Some places/rulers wouldn't let you re-do anything, and you're just stuck being unhappy... Thank God we don't have to live like that...

Now, if we would all just stop being lazy, we could get this train rolling again.

0 u/stillinit [OP] 19 Oct 2017 00:58

That's why I started this thread, to get ideas going. Google, Twitter and Facebook are being funded through other means other than advertising. TV spammed facebook and twitter for a decade to gain it's priceless userbase. The game is rigged. Not saying that there's no solution, but it has to be an out of the box solution.

0 u/Dark_Shroud 03 Dec 2017 05:42

Ok I see this is old but you can always use Bing video search or Ecosia (Bing).

0 u/Dark_Shroud 03 Dec 2017 05:48

Use the Brave Browser and set it to delete all data when it closes. So you can use the Bing Video search or Ecosia's (powered by Bing) video search.

Once SeeqPod shutdown it seems that no one else wanted to try this niche function.

0 u/tame 19 Oct 2017 02:43

Isn't that basically DuckDuckGo? (Maybe with the !g option.)

0 u/MrKequc 25 Oct 2017 02:13

The !g option literally uses google search, it's identical to typing your search into the google search box. Otherwise you're right, they aggregate their results from Google and other search services.

0 u/roznak 19 Oct 2017 19:57

Be careful with Hooktube, it is a single point of failure. If it gets taken down then you lose all your links you collected.

0 u/stillinit [OP] 19 Oct 2017 22:15

This is why you, and everyone else needs to download any and all relevant videos you come across. We can rebuild if enough people are downloading.

0 u/Nalbarcam 20 Oct 2017 05:08

link hooktube with siacoin