I know the podcast app Snipd (https://www.snipd.com/) offers some similar things. It will build chapters with AI generated summaries of each chapter.

Not sure if they are leveraging that for search and discovery or not but it looks like they do (https://www.snipd.com/podcasters)

A user can request it for any podcast and it doesn't seem to take that long the times I have tried it.

Hey we've actually checked out snipd as well. We're excited that there are others that are also competing in this space. What are some of the features you like that we are lacking?

This seems to be a trendy approach. Intellij Fleet (https://www.jetbrains.com/fleet/) Replit (https://replit.com/) more... (ssh + vim) ;)

They are all a bit different of course. I do worry the MS + GitHub hegemony doesn't have our best interest in mind though.

Somewhat related, I actually had a great use for Replit recently. Some technically inexperienced people (mostly running Windows) would benefit from access to a python command line tool, but the only commonality we had was a forum thread where we met. So i cloned the GitHub repo from the author of the tool and gave a very short set of instructions and a link to the Replit project. Nobody had any questions about installing because none of it ran on their computer. It was just a simple python script but worked perfectly in the online IDE. I didn't have to help anyone with anything, it just worked.

Another Neeva user here... yeah, the personal document indexing was far cooler than I expected. I held off doing it for it a while but glad I gave it go. Just the GitHub indexing alone is cool. Can do some fun hacks with that too. I think they need to surface these personal results even better in the web results than they do (and I hear that is in the works?? hope it is).

Just a user of Neeva here but a happy one. Also very excited to hear about the work toward an independent stack! Enjoy the spaces and immersive search UIs for various types of searches. Neeva make search fun again. ;)

I think this is part of the issue with Google. They are almost too afraid to innovate in search (for the user) for fear it would impact advertising.

Actually I think Neeva is fully open now for all to try at https://neeva.com/

I don't work for them, but I have gone the paid route with them and I am very pleased with them as my default search now.

Wait.. Dark Castle actually runs?! I can't get the controls to work, can anyone help.. I desperately want to show this to my son so he can see what I used to play. :)

Not sure for PC or Linux, but the keyboard works in the newest Chrome on my older Intel Mac Mini. I just had to go to Apple  -> Control Panels -> Monitors -> scroll up -> Black & White before launching. For new players, the keys are under the Options button at lower-right: AWDS (move), Q (action), E (duck), Space (jump), using the mouse to aim the arm up and down and clicking to shoot. The Info button explains: keys 1-4 to choose the door in the beginning, Tab (pause) and Command-Q (quit, but quits the browser..), some keys can be held down.. good luck!

Try using the native build of Basilisk II? You might have a bit better luck.

system error: -127

WOW.. it's exactly as I remember it :)

Joke aside, that was a FUN walk down memory lane for me.

Untapped potential. exactly. To me the biggest problem isn't the results (even the ads) it's the lack of innovation. The lack of making search an experience and something that generates a value I can store and share.

I've been looking at several of the options talked about here. My favorite so far is Neeva (https://neeva.com) due to their "spaces" concept and how it provides a simple building block I can explore to address many of the use cases I have for search.

Search needs innovation and people trying new things.

This is just a simple bash script and Apache Tika (https://tika.apache.org/). You could script this together in minutes. Try https://github.com/flameshot-org/flameshot and feed the results through Tika to OCR the results.