Search engine where users can adjust ranking boost factors
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Hi HN,I’m working on an Israeli search engine with a focus on deeper search across Israeli, academic, and scientific content.One feature I recently added is that users can adjust their own search boost factors. For example, they can give more or less weight to title, domain, URL, language, document type, or page content.Search remains anonymous and ad-free.I’m interested in feedback from people who care about search, indexing, crawling, privacy, and ranking transparency:Would you find this kind of user-adjustable search ranking useful?https://websearch.co.il
HN · launched Jun 8, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 69%) · 0 views
Niche: vertical search engines and directories · 98 launches, 7 in the last 7 days ▼ -46% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Search & retrieval
- B2B
- Not AI
- Commercial product
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Could you build this?
Partial The search frontend and ranking slider UI are simple to vibe-code, but crawling the Israeli/academic web and running an inverted index with custom multi-factor scoring requires real search infrastructure.
What it would actually take: The system requires a distributed web crawler (e.g., Apache Nutch or custom Go/Rust crawlers) and an indexing engine like Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, or Tantivy with custom tokenizers for Hebrew morphology and academic citations. The tricky technical component is building a performant query pipeline that re-computes ranking scores on the fly based on dynamic per-user boost vectors without crippling query latency.
Discussion
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Feature requests: Image search, Video and audio search, Dedicated news search
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