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  1. Spotted in my RSS feeds: GovAuctions. From the About page: “GovAuctions lets you search every government surplus auction at once. You can filter by location, category, and price, save items to a watchlist, and get alerts when new auctions match what you’re looking for.”

    https://rbfirehose.com/2026/05/05/govauctions-auction-metasearch/
  2. Is there an #EU wide price comparison site for #onlineshopping?

    Even a list of comparison sites would be helpful. Someone could then construct a #metasearch engine.

    #askmastodon #askfedi

  3. @SwiftOnSecurity do you have to crawl it all no but people also underestimate the power of directed crawling at 200 ppm - it is going all the time - as long as you cite sources no copyright issues #real time sentiment #metasearch weights #cited #backlinks

  4. Web search is a cesspit of algorithm-driven propaganda

    The #dotcons have turned web searches into a cesspit of algorithm-driven consumerist and political ideological propaganda. What was a tool for discovery and connection is now a tightly controlled funnel, pushing people towards preordained narratives and commercialized echo chambers. Nowhere is this more obvious than on Google, the go-to gatekeeper of information, where what you find is shaped not by the richness of human knowledge, but by whatever serves the interests of the #nastyfew who […]

    hamishcampbell.com/web-searche

  5. #question of the day (#qotd?):

    Most #SearchEngines have paid #APIs one can use to retrieve results but there are also #metasearch engines which seem to pull these results without paying for them (e.g., on the small scale, independent #seeks instances). I'm curious about the #legal issues surrounding metasearch. Who pays for the #API? And who uses other methods and why?

    #search