Manage Optics
Optics lets you control almost everything about which search results that gets returned to
you. You can discard results from specific sites, boost results from other sites and much
more.
See our
quickstart
for how to get started. Once you have developed your optic, you can add it here to be used during
your search.
Simply host the optic on a url that returns a plain-text HTTP response with the optic. We use
raw.githubusercontent.com, but you are free to host them elsewhere.
Name
Description
Link
Copycats removal
Remove common copycat websites from search results.
Hacker News
Only return results from websites that are popular on Hacker News.
Discussions
Only return results from forums or similar types of QA pages.
Fediverse
Only search in fediverse sites.
Indieweb & blogroll
Search only in the indieweb + a list of blogs from blogroll.org and some hand-picked blogs from hackernews.
10K Short
Remove the top 10,000 most popular websites from search results.
Devdocs
Only return results from some of the developer documentation sites listed on devdocs.io. This is a non-exhaustive list.
Academic
Search exclusively in academic sites (.edu, .ac.uk, arxiv.org etc.). This is a non-exhaustive list.
Tilde
Only search in urls that contain a tilde (~).