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by qwery 1555 days ago
This is the first time I've tried Teclis and it was a very positive experience. Always happy to see anything new in this space (search engineering?) and this seems particularly aligned with my interests.

My queries didn't get (obviously) mangled behind the scenes! Thank you for treating me with respect. Having said that, Teclis doesn't seem to treat alternate spellings of '-ise' words (e.g. normalise/normalize) as equivalent -- this is one case of auto-correction that I do appreciate in other search engines.

I just noticed the semantic search mode tip. I haven't tried it yet, but I like that it's not the default way to interpret my query.

I found it easy to find "technical" results and even (relevant) websites that I've never seen or heard of within the first ~10 hits. I wonder about the link between "non-commercial" as Teclis defines it and authentic, non-abusive, or otherwise desirable search results.

Also good:

- I didn't need to turn on javascript.

- clear info on the front page (the info itself and the fact that it's right there)

- results are actual normal links

- result snippet is normal selectable text (not a giant link)