I used to have a job and no computer. Now I have a computer and a part time job. Part time employment limits my mobility resources so I read internet news. My entertainment is trying to absorb right wing and left wing views to see how our country is doing. I discuss topics with a neighbor. Being informed is for me an obligation that goes with citizenship. I don't watch as much television since I started looking things up on the internet. A problem surfaced about the internet while growing my callous.
Internet search has been hijacked by people loading keywords, close spelling, related content, and relevancy. That is just my opinion. I am not an internet expert. I have scrolled as many as twenty-five pages of one search result myself. Search return listings are now in the millions. I have seen as large as a ten million some odd search result. Millions of results mixed up with sound a like words, keywords that are not part of the article loading, paid ads on search return page listings, and popularity was overwhelming me. How can I find content in that? It was so hard I have a callous from search.
The need for change had an exclamation point when I did a search for a certain vehicle part. The first page in the return contained a result for a different vehicle manufacturer part. I asked one of the two programmers I know, "What can be done about how frustrating search is today?" His response was, "That is just the way it is." I replied, "Is there a future when one searches for a "blue" item, the result would include "red" since both are colors?" His next response was he would approach the problem as a hobby project because he has a full time job.
First good news was he would write a program in his hobby time that listed three sections. Exact matches, all the words, then related content should be returned in one search return. The sections even have labels so I can tell which is what. I can now clearly see no match from a search then no listing in search returns. Then I have an option to look at the all the words section. I usually don't go to the related content section, but I have once in a while. I sometimes resubmit a different search string. It is much better for me to resubmit than try to find something in millions of listings. I love it.
All this came about after over 500 hours of top drawer programming and hundreds of emails. I have a toy that has exact match, all the words, then related content in one search return. A surprise was the search also has an option for site suffix specific search. This is the only search I know that does that. The site suffixes that can be requested are .edu, .org, .gov, and .mil. The site specific listings are then listed first. The majority of people have been using the general search that includes any site suffixes. The master programmer even made a version for smart phones that limits search return to fifty listings. His explanation for the small limit was that some people pay smart phone bills by the bit of information. The logic behind just fifty was why should anyone have to pay for millions of search listings when it is doubtful a smart phone user would scroll more than a couple of pages.
I am an idealist. I believe this is the way search should be. Search hijackers may have to start hijacking something else. Anyone can play with my new toy the programmer built called "Norele.com." The name is a play on words standing for no related and no relevancy. Norele the search is three syllables, pronounced No"rel*e\, n..
Norele.com is about time.