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77 lines
3.5 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html lang="en">
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<head>
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<meta charset="UTF-8" />
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<link rel="icon" type="image/x-icon" href="/favicon.ico" />
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width,initial-scale=1" />
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<meta
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name="description"
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content="Discover Blaze, the search engine for seamless browsing in any connection condition. Minimize bandwidth with minimalist page rendering. Enhance your browsing experience."
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/>
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<title>Blaze</title>
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</head>
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<body>
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<h2>What is this site?</h2>
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<p>
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Blaze is an ultrafast search engine. The purpose of Blaze is to minimize
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the transferred data between clients and servers, allowing users to
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navigate the web in a minimalist manner.
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</p>
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<h2>Why?</h2>
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<p>
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One day, I exceeded my monthly data limit for high-speed browsing. As a
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consequence, my internet speed was significantly reduced. Consequently,
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web pages took an extremely long time to load, and I encountered timeout
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errors 90% of the time. It was at that moment that I contemplated a
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solution to this issue and conceived the idea of Blaze. Now, I can surf
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the web super fast and access the information I need even without a
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high-speed connection.
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</p>
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<h2>How?</h2>
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<p>
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It's actually very straightforward. When you click on "BLAZE IT!", the URL
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changes to https://blaze.cyclic.app?q= followed by the query you searched
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for. This address is where the backend is hosted. When the site is
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accessed with the "q" parameter, a simple Node.js application retrieves
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the search results and generates an extremely lightweight version of SERP
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(Search Engine Results Page). From there, if you click on a link, it will
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be parsed and a page will be generated with only the content (I used the
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same library that Firefox uses to generate the reader mode). This makes it
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possible to navigate using only a few kilobytes of data instead of
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megabytes.
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</p>
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<h2>Does it work?</h2>
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<p>
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Yes, even with a poor internet connection, you can search for things and
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load pages extremely quickly. When you click on "BLAZE IT!" and select a
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search result, you receive a webpage that is only a few kilobytes in size
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instead of several megabytes. This makes it possible to load the page even
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under challenging connection conditions, effectively preventing timeout
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errors from occurring.
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</p>
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<h2>Other implications</h2>
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<p>
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This project was born to address an issue with slow internet connections
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while allowing continuous web surfing. During development, I discovered
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several other positive implications. Browsing a lightweight and
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minimalistic web puts less stress on the phone's battery and processor. It
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is mostly free from ads, and it likely has other, albeit possibly minor,
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impacts on the environment (e.g., reduced battery drain, decreased need
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for frequent phone charging, and lower CO2 emissions). Moreover, Blaze can
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serve as an "emergency search engine" for browsing the web in challenging
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connection situations, and it can even be a lifesaver at times.
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</p>
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<h2>Open Source</h2>
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<p>
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<a href="https://github.com/daaanny90/blaze-this-page"
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>The code is open source</a
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>, and you can host your hown version of Blaze, or contribute to it.
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</p>
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<h2>Who I am?</h2>
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<p>
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I am Danny, you can learn more about me
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<a href="https://dannyspina.com">on my website</a>
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</p>
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</body>
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</html>
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