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Oh lol well it probably will be focused on Neocities sites so if you only want to search those then yes 😂 The big missing piece is ht://dig except modern. Did you ever use that? People used to use their own servers to search their own sites. It's weird to me that basically nobody has tackled this.

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Dominic has blessed this idea, it is officially happening

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This whole idea is nuts lol, I have so many questions. I'm also curious how it stops search engines from blocking it as a bot. I'll dig into it more, thanks!

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This is probably a saner solution than what I'm thinking of doing right now. Does it just scan 240 random search engines? I don't totally understand its behavior.

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If you make an adapter/version that more or less emulates the Google custom search json API you're going to get a lot of desperate customers for it next year. Google didn't even bother to email me a heads up about this.

In my case I just want to spider the sites on servers I operate so I won't have that issue. The huge missing piece in web tech RN is a modern localized search engine. Like nobody has made a 21st century ht://Dig? We used to run this ourselves en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ht-//Dig

en.wikipedia.org

ht-//Dig - Wikipedia

And I mean, if you can't trust Google to keep running a search engine API, can you actually trust any third party API to keep functioning over a long term ever?

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Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 12/05/2026

Google is deprecating their Custom Search API next year...

cat reading a newspaper with a top caption that says "I should build a search engine"

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Go back to when you were a teenager and ask yourself how cool you would be with a government saying you can't look at web sites and forums because they're "too addictive", you can't listen to Nine Inch Nails because it's "for adults only", and Geocities needs to be shut down because it's "too LGBT".

cnbc.com

EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's ‘addictive design’ targeting kids on social media

"We are investigating platforms that allow children to go down "rabbit holes" of harmful content," EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said Tuesday.

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Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 12/05/2026

Glen Canyon is hopelessly beautiful. Can't wait to get back there someday.

Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 09/04/2026

Someone else to consult is @pfrazee.com, who made the Mother of All Demos of this idea and has a lot of thoughts on it I'm sure. Beaker Browser deserves an entire chapter in a dweb history book.

Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 27/03/2026

I have been hiding under the couch since I saw this

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Honestly if I knew I had to complete @pfrazee.com's "feats of strength" obstacle course upon arrival I would have skipped #atmosphereconf this year

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And a marathon finish line just outside

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There's a sentiment split between people that use this stuff for fixing bugs in html (etc), and people whose main exposure is viral 8 fingered slop art on social media doom scroll feeds. The former perceives it as a potential tool, the latter perceives it as a potential threat. They're both right?

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 25/03/2026

I also hand coded HTML back in the olden days and indeed HTML5/JS/CSS is a different animal. In optimizing the web for apps we also threw away the simplicity. Not everyone is a coding genius and can read and understand a giant CSS manual. Most people can't even center a div. I'm in that statistic.

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I recognize that this will not be a popular opinion, but I think it's true. And I hope people will read the whole thing before they start yelling at me based on the headline.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 11/02/2026

Update on Bing: The block seems to have been removed! Sites are slowly starting to re-index. Special thanks to @ashleybelanger.bsky.social for this really helpful article and visibility. We now have a direct contact at Microsoft we're communicating with to see how this can be prevented again.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 28/01/2026

Bing has blocked neocities and all user subdomains from its search index. We’ve spent months trying to resolve this through official channels and gotten nowhere. Until this gets resolved, we are recommending that people do not use Bing. Blog post with details: blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01...

blog.neocities.org

Neocities Is Blocked by Bing

Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...

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Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 15/12/2025

300 Incredible Things for Beanie Lovers on the Internet (1999)

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Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 21/08/2025

Files have always been the superior interface, this is still true. When I had 100k mp3s I couldn't even use iTunes because the fcking indexer would crash trying to load all of them into the interface. "Songs/Artist/Album Name/01 - Title.mp3" was a perfect interface, fast to load, and easy to use.

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Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 16/08/2025

I'll see you at HTTP 502 Summer Slam @dominictarr.bsky.social I'm comin for ya

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Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 16/08/2025

I'm gonna put you in a postgres transaction deadlock brotherrr

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Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 09/08/2025

If Google let other users reply to reviews they would finally have that successful social network they always wanted. I'm eating lunch there now, the place is packed and it's great.

Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 09/08/2025

Don't read negative reviews of a restaurant to learn anything about the restaurant, read them to learn how insane the reviewers are. Check out this full-blown existential crisis about greed, illegal child labor, and the slow death of the American dream for a review of a mom and pop SANDWICH SHOP.

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Neocities @neocities.org · 31/07/2025

HTML Day 2025 is this Saturday! If the idea of coding HTML in nature with fun and creative people appeals to you, see if there's a local event happening near you (or create one!)

html.energy

HTML Energy

HTML Day is on August 2nd, 2025!

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html energy @htmlenergy.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

On Saturday, August 2nd, 2025, we'll be gathering in places around the world to write and celebrate HTML. Join us ❇️ html.energy/html-day/202...

html.energy

HTML Energy

HTMl Day is on August 2nd, 2025!

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Neocities @neocities.org · 16/06/2025

Anyone have some pics to contribute?

only-fans.neocities.org

OnlyFans - Welcome

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Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 16/06/2025

Excited to learn a future pickleball game with you is possible

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Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 13/05/2025

Interesting variation on the "give us a link to our shitty spam site so we can improve its page rank" grift. Most of the time it's something like "Hello, I'm a teacher and my students wanted you to add this link!" but this one rolls in like Bluto from Popeye.

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Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 03/05/2025

@jwynia.com reminded me of Jevons' paradox this morning, I wonder if that's what's going on here.

en.m.wikipedia.org

Jevons paradox - Wikipedia

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Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 01/05/2025

Trying to figure out how to process this.. I love the idea of simpler browsers but I think that conversation is over.. cutting all of the funding for browser development seems like a great way to shove everyone into hyper addictive social media apps on monopolistic app stores and kill the web.

danfabulich.medium.com

All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding

Google pays for 80%+ of the development budget of all major web browsers, and soon, the US will force Google to stop supporting their…

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Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 25/04/2025

DDoS is a part of life unfortunately, of any online service, of any scale. Mastodon is far easier to DDoS because you just winnuke the crappy unpatched VPS it's being hosted on and then the hosting provider blackholes your server. DDoS is a universal, mandatory training on resilience improvement.

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Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 25/04/2025

The cool thing about bootstrapping too is you can attack problems that are on a longer time scale. When you get investors you're not just adding people that need exponential money back you're also adding a stopwatch.

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Kyle Drake @kyledrake.com · 07/04/2025

Someone a while ago was trying to convince me that Tariff Man "read a book on economics" and was completely convinced this is all just some elaborate negotiation strategy. Amazing what a ghostwritten fantasy novel about deal-making prowess can do for one's reality distortion field.