Talksearch.io

It has always been a dream of mine to create a high-quality search engine for Bitcointalk. After many months of development, I am proud to announce that Talksearch is now generally available. This is an important milestone towards providing users with high-quality search.

Talksearch is a simple search engine that allows you to quickly find and go to any posts on Bitcointalk.

 Features ____________________

- Real-time indexing of ALL posts (currently with several hours delay in indexing)

• Deleted and hidden posts in Investigations are not supposed to be indexed. If you see any, report them to me with the post ID and topic ID.

- Superior performance to Bitcointalk's builtin search.
- Tor-friendly, lacking rate limits and captchas.
- Detailed post metadata such as user, date, and topic title.
- Eliminates spammy results by enforcing basic length restrictions.

And will eventually have more accurate results than either.

 Infrastructure ____________________

Talksearch's website is hosted on Google App Engine, but the search engine itself is hosted on a DDoS-protected server at  Dartnode. Its IP address is shielded from public exposure by proxying all requests through Cloud Run Functions. It has a capacity to host up to 380GB of posts, including AI embeddings. Talksearch has access to 32GB of memory and a powerful dual-socket Xeon processor with 48 threads for powering natural language search. Backups are available off-site in case of disaster. Obviously, none of this is cheap, and it costs around $170/month in total to maintain.

 Roadmap ____________________

- Refine search result quality. In progress
- Create an end-user API (working on this soon)


Posts do not update automatically yet. I am working on that.

I will continuously optimize the quality of results on the index to achieve the best possible results. For now though, you may need to use multiple words to filter relevant posts.

 Donate ____________________

If you wish to support the maintenance and future development of Talksearch, you can send funds to the following addresses:

Bitcoin: bc1q6dphprljdas0xl2cmqn6tlskselx5xtcpcw8kx
Ethereum and ERC-20 tokens: 0xd3CaaE5098b8Bef64A6FD415b0b1B61aE880FFF5
Tron and USDT-TRC20: TGrsWW6knTwcJxkUKvp7SoV5Fjub9KMAeb

Donations will only be used to pay for hosting costs.

 Translations ____________________

• Indonesian by taufik123
  
• German by cygan
  
• Russian by satscraper
  
• Pidgin by Abdulzuruku01
  
• Croatian by katanic97
  
• Urdu by Adiljutt156
  
• Polish by cygan
  
• Turkish by mela65
  
• Portuguese by r_victory
  
• Romanian by GazetaBitcoin
  
• Filipino by Danica22
  
• Spanish by Porfirii
  
• Bangla by DYING_S0UL
  
• Hindi by M47AK16
  
  Thanks to all the people who made translations!
  
  Disclaimer - your searches are not private. Talksearch keeps logs of queries in Google Cloud for debugging and troubleshooting purposes. Google also logs your IP address, and it's impossible for me to disable this. If this is a turn-off for you, use DuckDuckGo instead. However, your data will never be sold or shared with anyone.