#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #playstation #netfront

FrogFind's "Catch of the Day": Surfing on a Hard Drive! (PlayStation 2) 🎮🌐

Hey Retro Fans! Today's Catch of the Day proves once again that you can hook up absolutely anything to the internet. Yesterday afternoon, this fantastic exotic gem showed up in our logs:

🏆 NetFront 3.0 on the PlayStation 2 (PlayStation BB Navigator 1.0)
What exactly is this? The PlayStation 2 wasn't just a brilliant DVD player and gaming console. With the optional Network Adaptor and a chunky IDE hard drive attached to the back, it transformed into a true multimedia powerhouse! The "Broadband Navigator" was essentially the operating system for this hard drive (mostly popular in Japan) and included the NetFront browser to explore the early days of console internet. The fact that someone is still booting up this thick PS2 brick today just to visit FrogFind is absolutely legendary!

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

Seems https://stract.com ils no longer operational, and the developper is no working on the project any longer...
That's a pity 😥 , I liked the ideas behind this search engine, although the index was never big enough to give really relevant results.

#marginaliasearch is an alternative, it seems.

I'm not sure what it takes to run a web crawler... Or how big the index becomes..
#yacy has a decentralized approach, not sure it works

#searchengine #souverainetenumerique #foss #logiciellibre

I collect Ecosia collectibles. I have over half of them (see image).

Ecosia is a search engine that uses Bing, Google and EUSP (European Search Perspective) as providers. There's some environmental angle, but I'm in it for the collectibles.

If you create an account, you can earn seeds for collectibles.

After Ecosia, I also use others in this order: Mojeek, Brave, and Startpage. I do not use "the duck" (DDG)

#searchengine #ecosia

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #ibm #os2 #os2warp

FrogFind's "Catch of the Day": A Greeting from IBM! (OS/2 Warp) 🚀🖥️

Hey Retro Fans and have a great weekend!

Today's Catch of the Day takes us right back to the mid-90s, straight onto the battlefield of desktop operating systems. Around 1:20 PM, we recorded this beautiful entry:

🏆 Netscape Navigator 4.61 on IBM OS/2

Why is this so cool?
Long before Linux on the desktop was a thing, there was a giant competitor to Microsoft's Windows 95: OS/2 Warp by IBM. It was incredibly stable, true 32-bit, offered outstanding multitasking, and was deeply loved by power users, banks, and network specialists.

Unfortunately, Microsoft ultimately won the marketing war, but OS/2 still has a small, incredibly loyal fanbase today (and even lives on in modern forks like ArcaOS!). The fact that someone booted up their old IBM machine (or a virtual machine) this afternoon to surf FrogFind using the classic Netscape 4 is pure retro dedication.

OS/2 lives! And on FrogFind, it loads faster than ever. 😉

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

The March 2026 Spam Update is reshaping search results 💡
Are you optimizing or just publishing?

👉 Check full update: https://go-techsolution.com/google-begins-rolling-out-the-march-2026-spam-update/

#SearchEngine #GoogleRanking #SEONews #DigitalGrowth #ContentCreation #TechSEO

Do you make a search engine and want more market share?

Provide a button that says "exclude sites with ads" or "order results with fewer ads first" and enjoy the huge surge in users.

#InternetSearch #searchEngine

#retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #search #searchengine #frogFind #half-life #valve #gmod

FrogFind's "Catch of the Day": Search Engine in Inception Mode! (Garry's Mod) 🎮🖥️

Hey Retro Fans!

Today we have a Catch of the Day that literally takes us into virtual worlds. Around 5:22 PM, a user agent popped up in our server logs that made us do a double-take:

🏆 Steam Client 1.0 on Garry's Mod 13 (Valve/Steam HTTP Client 1.0 GMod/13)

What exactly happened here?
For those who don't know: Garry's Mod (GMod) is a legendary sandbox game by Valve, built on the Half-Life 2 engine. Players can build pretty much anything the physics engine allows.

Over the years, the modding community created addons (like Wiremod or Media Player/Web Browser) that allow you to spawn fully functional, virtual computer monitors on the walls of the game world. So this afternoon, someone literally spawned a virtual monitor in their game, stood in front of it with their virtual character, opened the in-game browser, and surfed onto FrogFind!

We absolutely love the idea of someone standing in a virtual warehouse, using an in-game screen to search for text-based web content. FrogFind truly works everywhere – even in "Inception" mode! 🤯

Your FrogFind Team 🐸

I have built my own little #searchengine for fun, it uses a basic tf-idf search algorithm (and is probably really badly implemented), but can now actually find things!
Because of this I wrote a short blog post about it. You can find it here:

https://wolkensteine.codeberg.page/en/blog/creating-my-own-search-engine-i/

Reply to this post to comment on the blog post. It will be displayed there!

#software #diy #rust #minisearch