I'm doing a social search engine. Won't be big and
professional like Google. This has been brewing
for a while, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in it :)
Are there any other social search engines that draw from multiple sources? I know there are services like mention.com, but I wanted something where you do not have to sign up and can just search right away.
Sidebar: I did something similar many years ago. I was doing a hacker news book site (books hackers talk about). I wanted to include every time the book was talked about, but I didn't want to run code or update stuff. The entire site was static.
This allowed me to write reviews, do interviews, and also present whatever folks were saying about a book -- without having to write server code or even maintain a server.
Love to see how this continues to develop. Lots of potential here.
Nice. I'd like to use regexp in the search, or some other kind of advanced parameters. For example, I searched for "latex" and got no results from the document preparation system LaTeX.
It's "cogwheel", and your dong is backward -- very 4chan, that.
(I'd have something more substantive to say, only the "cogweels" seem to be grinding teeth off one another at the moment, so there's not much I can do.)
Shameless plug (and relevant to the topic), I run the site http://redditcommentsearch.com which allows searching through the comments of a particular user on reddit.
I created this site because I often needed to search through my own comment history, to find old debates that I want to revisit.
Looks good, and works good too! It would be nice to see if a particular item is from reddit or hackernews, and maybe what section or subreddit. And perhaps the number of other comments in that thread?
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[ 2.6 ms ] story [ 59.7 ms ] threadAre there any other social search engines that draw from multiple sources? I know there are services like mention.com, but I wanted something where you do not have to sign up and can just search right away.
Sidebar: I did something similar many years ago. I was doing a hacker news book site (books hackers talk about). I wanted to include every time the book was talked about, but I didn't want to run code or update stuff. The entire site was static.
I found out you can determine the "buzz" for something just using Google Search and some code. Check out this page: http://www.hn-books.com/Books/Slaughterhouse-Five.htm#the_bu...
This allowed me to write reviews, do interviews, and also present whatever folks were saying about a book -- without having to write server code or even maintain a server.
Love to see how this continues to develop. Lots of potential here.
So you could trigger the advanced syntax by putting latex in quotes and search for any commment that contains latex and text anywhere in the comment:
(I'd have something more substantive to say, only the "cogweels" seem to be grinding teeth off one another at the moment, so there's not much I can do.)
I created this site because I often needed to search through my own comment history, to find old debates that I want to revisit.
Found this comment b/c I have an alert set up for "karmalytics"