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Ask HN: Review our startup Iterend.com (Private beta launch)

8 points by bluelu ↗ HN
Hi,

We are launching our Blog Search Engine today in private beta and I would be very happy if some of the hacker news readers could give us some valuable feedback. You can access our site under http://www.iterend.com/?ref=hn (the link will work for the first 1000 users and you have to use this link first before the other links below will work!).

So what differentiates us from other blog search engines: (e.g google blog search, technorati, twingly, etc...)

We want you to be able to actively discover the most recent, most discussed and most important articles of the blogosphere. Iterend gives you an overview of the information you are looking for, where you are then able to drill down into the different categories of interest related to that information.

* We display an overview of what is currently being discussed in the blogosphere, so that you are able to dive into the different areas you are interested in.

* All articles are linked to structured wikipedia information, which makes it possible to search by categories. (eg. http://blogs.iterend.com/en/?query=category%3A"Swimmer"+category%3A"Medalist"&date=alltime)

* Search results are clustered and you can search on sentence level, post level or blog level.

* Next to the search results, relevant phrases and categories are displayed, so you are able to restrict your search or get an overview over the information you are looking for. (eg. http://blogs.iterend.com/en/?query=techcrunch&date=alltime)

* You can search for related posts to a given topic, url or cluster (eg. http://blogs.iterend.com/en/?query=related%3A"iphone"&date=alltime)

At the moment, about 50 000 mainstream english blogs are indexed. The number of indexed blogs will be increased soon, while we will still focus on the mainstream (and hopefully spam free) blogs. We will add support to search in additional languages in the future as well.

We also offer an Api for application developers wishing to use parts of our service in their applications.

I will be very thankful for all of your comments! If someone wants to create an application out of our api (related phrases, categories, or the related search future), that would be great!

12 comments

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maxklein
Do you offer an API that will return me all blog discussions on certain keywords?
bluelu
You can grab the "normal" search results by using our api. There aren't however any clusters in it (only the first result of the cluster is returned). If it is useful, we might be adding those as well.

We also have support for timeslices (divide the search results into multiple days) and other statistical stuff (hits from #tlds, domain, sources, etc...), but it's not yet accesible for the public.

Here is the link to the api: http://blogs.iterend.com/en/display?show=api

rksprst
I like it and would actually use it to search blogs (though the url is hard to remember). One small caveat, I would make the pagination bigger and easier to click on (look at google).
bluelu
thanks, we will do that.

The name is a miture between iteration, iter (latin for way), and trend.

ScottWhigham
The name is a miture between iteration, iter (latin for way), and trend.

Like fancy words, do you? My suggestion would be to drop the fancy stuff and just make it easy for me to explain to my grandmother. I'm a smart guy but, like most people, I've never heard of the word "miture" nor did I take Latin in school. Just use words normal people use - "It's a mix of the words iteration and trend - iterend."

vaksel
I'd look for a better name, honestly I have no idea what iterend means...or what it hints at. + even now I tried to type it out as iTrend subconsciously.
axod
The other blog search engines return hundreds of results for my app name, this one returns 1 result.

Not a good start :/

bluelu
We don't have a complete archive of sites in our index yet (we only want to concentrate on the top blogs). Also, by default you are only searching the last 24 hours.
fizx
I liked the simplicity of the invite experience. Your home page times out. :(
bluelu
Thanks. Murphys law. It worked for 2 weeks without any glitch, and now this...Working on it.
sc
Sorry. I don't want to review your startup badly enough to deal with this overhead.
paul9290
I would suggest condensing Iterend's description down to two sentences.

Give me the benefit and then describe it - all in 30 words or less! Users have almost zero attention span ... capturing it is key!