Show HN: Search engine where users can adjust ranking boost factors

[tim77]

Hi HN,

I’m working on an Israeli search engine with a focus on deeper search across Israeli, academic, and scientific content.

One feature I recently added is that users can adjust their own search boost factors. For example, they can give more or less weight to title, domain, URL, language, document type, or page content.

Search remains anonymous and ad-free.

I’m interested in feedback from people who care about search, indexing, crawling, privacy, and ranking transparency:

Would you find this kind of user-adjustable search ranking useful?

https://websearch.co.il

[anenefan]

Congrats, one of the few search engines that actually works - in fact it did really well in just a straight search re a curly testing query I generally use to test various new aspiring search engines [vegetable oil cracking into regular fuel]

[tim77]

Thank you, that is very encouraging to hear.

The search index is continuously being expanded, and yesterday a new version went online with more than 100 improvements, including copyright/license search options, better filtering, and faster query handling.

I’m also working on image search, which should hopefully be available soon. Video/audio search may follow later, and a dedicated news search is on the roadmap too.