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		tetris11 on May 16, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Is there a search engine which excludes th... I feel that we should go down the adblock hosts list approach, where people download website lists from individuals they trust who have curated or scraped links of websites complete with keywords, and its up to the user to refresh their lists and then perform a search on their website.txt file It will be limited, but still quite powerful, similar to the way that we can pick and choose different host file sources from the web.

rthomas6 on May 17, 2020 [–]

Does anyone else remember StumbleUpon? It's not exactly the same as a search engine, but that worked really well for finding interesting content back in the day.

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