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by jaytaylor 1632 days ago
Now your comment above is the first search result for "3 hole punch" on NTS!

Nice SEO campaign ;)

If only I could get NTS to whitelist my domain name (myfirstnamelastname dot com), the Big-G has hated it seemingly since even before I acquired it > ten years ago, even though it's ad-free and totally benign. Good thing I mostly just host go pkgs with it and use it for my email.

p.s. OP this is amazing! Would love an article explaining any backstory and details on how you made this (or setup / configured it).

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> If only I could get NTS to whitelist my domain name

There is a form [0] on the about page that allows people to suggest websites to add :)

> p.s. OP this is amazing! Would love an article explaining any backstory and details on how you made this (or setup / configured it).

Thanks! I think this is gonna be disappointing from an engineering perspective, and certainly not article worthy :) As further explained in my other comments, the website is basically a wrapper around google programmable search [1] where I whitelisted a set of sites I found useful personally, plus some suggestions from other users. It's really easy to set up.

As to why, I will quote some other comments of mine:

"I built this website a couple of months ago because I was annoyed by how hard it was to find useful things on Google."

"to find things more easily while programming or studying (I study biology, cs and ai; and philosophy in my free time, so expect the best results for queries related to those subjects). ... When I'm not doing those things, I just use Google or DDG because they have better results for day-to-day queries."

Let me know if you have other questions!

[0] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdf8lAoShQz7Wjl9h60...

[1] https://developers.google.com/custom-search/docs/overview