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📣 ThinkBeat

A specialized search engine to find domain name addresses


As with most things of I presume this already exists.

A majority of the start of my interaction with my browser is typing in something like "Nietzsche Cafe" because I want to go to their website and look at their menu. www.NietzscheCafe.fi

So what I need is a hit to their Url: "www.NietzscheCafe.fi"

Or I need look at the prices over at "Dostoevsky Used Cars" I search and what I want is the Url: www.DostoevskyHappyMotor.fi

I wish there was a "pre search engine" that could just find the Url. It could be implemented that if it failed to find a hit it would pass it on to Bing/Google etc.

That would cut my traffic to Google quite a bit over time.

So less tracking and less monetization

  👤 vincent_s Accepted Answer ✓
Use DDG [1] as your default search engine and then prefix your search with "\". This would be "\Nietzsche Cafe" or "\Dostoevsky Used Cars".

Or use a Chrome extension [2].

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/ [2] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/search/I'm%20Feeling%20Lu...

👤 danskeren
I love the idea, and strongly consider doing it with my search engine since I don't have access to any auto-suggest API at the moment.

That being said, not sure how I feel about "Dostoevsky Used Cars" displaying "www.DostoevskyHappyMotor.fi". I'm also curious to hear people's thoughts about whether to include all websites or only the most popular ones in each country, and how you would rank these websites. Which domains should appear when somebody searched "go"? You have go.com, go.co, godaddy.com, google.com, google.etc, go.dev, golang.org, and a million others, not to mention you probably want typo tolerance, e.g. for ogs.gg. Maybe you also want to display the most popular websites for the 'go board game' based on your dostoevsky used cars example. What about seo spam websites that are sometimes named after a popular search query?