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Boosted by brib@bribstodon.xyz ("brib :neofox_floof:​ :Nonbinary:"):
emily_s@mastodon.me.uk ("Emily_S") wrote:

Some serious work to do on the text filtering and formatting when reading wikipedia articles but look! I searched for something and got a useful first result!

The dumbest and simplest algorithm in the history of search engines. Literally sum up the appearance counts for all the terms you typed in and return the pages sorted so the highest count comes first.

A screen shot of the Ceridwen search engine. It has a black background with white text. The title at the top with a bubbling cauldron logo, a search box underneath with the word "aardvark" Below that is a search result showing the wikipedia page for "Aardvark" the text has been somewhat mangled though. What should be links have been turned into text very badly which makes it practically unreadable