I need to buy a 3 hole punch, and when searching for reviews yesterday I had the same problem of lots of hits with affiliate links and low quality sites.
I searched for “3 hole punch review” [1] here, and the results have zero relevancy.
First one is a Chinese cell phone company, second a Wikipedia page for an episode of the office, third a thesaurus page with synonyms for ‘colorful’ and fourth a link to the Wikipedia page of Yellow Submarine.
I can’t even imagine how you get there from “3 hole punch review”
Now your comment above is the first search result for "3 hole punch" on NTS!
Nice SEO campaign ;)
If only I could get NTS to whitelist my domain name (myfirstnamelastname dot com), the Big-G has hated it seemingly since even before I acquired it > ten years ago, even though it's ad-free and totally benign. Good thing I mostly just host go pkgs with it and use it for my email.
p.s. OP this is amazing! Would love an article explaining any backstory and details on how you made this (or setup / configured it).
> If only I could get NTS to whitelist my domain name
There is a form [0] on the about page that allows people to suggest websites to add :)
> p.s. OP this is amazing! Would love an article explaining any backstory and details on how you made this (or setup / configured it).
Thanks! I think this is gonna be disappointing from an engineering perspective, and certainly not article worthy :) As further explained in my other comments, the website is basically a wrapper around google programmable search [1] where I whitelisted a set of sites I found useful personally, plus some suggestions from other users. It's really easy to set up.
As to why, I will quote some other comments of mine:
"I built this website a couple of months ago because I was annoyed by how hard it was to find useful things on Google."
"to find things more easily while programming or studying (I study biology, cs and ai; and philosophy in my free time, so expect the best results for queries related to those subjects). ... When I'm not doing those things, I just use Google or DDG because they have better results for day-to-day queries."
The site uses a whitelist of URLs to (attempt to) keep results relevant to science and programming. In the context in which I'm using this search engine, I have no interest in (reviews on) 3 hole punches. (That's not to say I never do, but in that case I'd use Google, Reddit, etc.) The fact that results don't show up here means that they also won't show up when I'm not looking for them, which is 100% of the time when I'm using this search engine. That's a plus for me personally.
Best case would be to have relevant results in a single search engine, but that's not what I intended when building this site.
From OP, "'No Trash Search' is very focused on STEM and not 'for daily use'". I would assume your 3 hole punch review search query falls outside of what this specializes in.
I searched for “3 hole punch review” [1] here, and the results have zero relevancy.
First one is a Chinese cell phone company, second a Wikipedia page for an episode of the office, third a thesaurus page with synonyms for ‘colorful’ and fourth a link to the Wikipedia page of Yellow Submarine.
I can’t even imagine how you get there from “3 hole punch review”
[1] https://notrashsearch.github.io/?q=3+hole+punch+review