Kennedy, a new Gemini search engine

2022-02-027 | #search #kennedy | @Acidus

I've been quietly building a Gemini search engine for the last few months and I'm ready to release it.

🔭Kennedy - Search Gemini

There are a few things Kennedy does that I think makes it a fun and valuable addition:

I'm Feeling Lucky! Automatically takes you to the first result for your search.

😻 Favicons! A capsule's Favicon is displayed for each search result to make skimming easier.

Clean Snippets: Search results include a snippet of content which matches your query. Your keywords are [surrounded] with brackets, and gemtext formatting is removed to make it cleaner to read.

Language Detection: Search results include the content's detected language, allowing you to only visit results you can read. This doesn't rely on the "lang=" attribute which is often missing or incorrect. That is a whole another story entirely 😂!

Lines count: To help you sort quick articles from longer form content, search results tell you how many lines are in the content. If you want to be nerdy, I also include byte sizes.

Kennedy is also where I have moved the Hashtag Index and Mentions index I created last month:

👩‍🚀 3… 2… 1… Blastoff of a gemini space Hashtag Index

Mention Index: geminaut mentions across all of gemini space

While I have a ton of ideas, the best way to improve Kennedy is to get people using it. Please give it a try and let me now what changes you want to see.

🔭Kennedy - Search Gemini