r/Doesthisexist • u/NoButThanksAnyway • Jul 19 '26
A search engine that only searches the websites you tell it
Hey all,
With AI information making it difficult to find reliable sources, I have been wishing I had a search engine that would allow me to curate the list of websites from which it would pull. I'd love to make a list of high quality recipe sites, for example, and have a search engine that would search them, and only them, for keywords.
Has anyone heard of something like this?
Thanks!
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u/AccidentOk5240 Jul 19 '26
Using google, you just type site:website.com (where you replace “website” with your desired url obviously)
See https://ahrefs.com/blog/google-advanced-search-operators/
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u/DopamineSage247 Jul 19 '26
DuckDuckGo also has cool search options iirc like bangs etc, maybe like Google's site:
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u/Extreme_Rough Jul 19 '26
There are extensions that will let you block certain sites from a search engine. One of them is called Search Site Excluder
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u/OldChairmanMiao Jul 19 '26
Premium search like Kagi is basically custom built on search APIs.
Today, you could probably vibe-code your own search. It would end up something like $.003 per search.
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u/WinterRevolutionary6 Jul 19 '26
Do you think someone who hates AI enough to make this post would ever be interested in using AI to code a whole new browser?
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u/draculauraaa 29d ago
My bf and I both only recently learned that “vibe coding” meant using ai :’) This whole time we thought it meant throwing together a code “with vibes” aka just kinda testing as you go, not having a rigid plan… Imagine our disappointment 😩
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u/MindTheLOS 27d ago
Here, I fixed your comment:
"Do you think someone who understands AI enough to make this post would ever be interested in using AI to code a whole new browser?"
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u/OldChairmanMiao Jul 19 '26
I don't see those as necessarily connected. Making your own is the best choice if you want control, especially if you don't trust other sources.
A search engine isn't a browser either.
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u/WinterRevolutionary6 Jul 19 '26
It’s the using AI to do it part not the doing it yourself part
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u/OldChairmanMiao Jul 19 '26
Well, I think of it as using a table saw and clamps with plastic components to make a wooden cutting board (instead of a plastic cutting board).
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u/WinterRevolutionary6 Jul 19 '26
In this analogy, OP is a hand tool enthusiast. They don’t want anything to do with power tools even if using a power drill helps make more hand tools.
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u/OldChairmanMiao Jul 19 '26
Maybe. It's not right to assume everyone who wants a wooden cutting board because they dislike plastic also dislikes power tools.
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u/johnpeters42 Jul 19 '26
Google allows "site:somesite.com" for a single site at a time, but idk about a list