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Million Short
A search engine with a twist: it deliberately removes the most popular sites from the results so obscure pages can surface. You use its web search form directly, there is no API. Helpful for digging past the usual dominant domains when researching a topic. Currently degraded, and you may hit a CAPTCHA.
Pas de vérification automatique, ouvre la recherche propre à l’archive.
Son utilité et son fonctionnement
Million Short is designed as a discovery tool: it deliberately removes the most dominant websites from its results so that smaller, less-trafficked pages can surface. You choose how many top sites to strip away, from the top 100 up to the top one million, and the results shift accordingly. This makes it useful when a topic search is always overwhelmed by a handful of the same large domains. Echo links to the Million Short site where you search directly; currently degraded with a possible CAPTCHA.
Ce qu’elle contient
Million Short draws on a broad web index and applies site-popularity filtering at query time rather than maintaining a separate curated index. The underlying corpus covers the general web; the distinctive value is the filtering layer, not a unique archive of content.
Accès
May require solving a captcha before it responds.