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GarlicToum

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About GarlicToum

Hacker News account for the Garlic Toum (https://garlictoum.com) The recipe search engine

Recent public activity

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    Comment #36039317

    In the modern age, SEO is partially to blame for inaccurate recipe cook times. At some point Google realized that folks would click on more recipes with shorter times, as people wo…

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    Comment #29798669

    Yeah, that's the typo detection in search. The key thing is that "Natto" is prioritized, so that part is working correctly! Tweaking search can be a whole full time thing. I'll wri…

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    Comment #29798336

    Yeah, that was part of the long term monetization plan. Paid for user accounts ($3ish/month) that allow people to clip recipes, view previews, discuss, modify, and share. Never qui…

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    Comment #29787767

    Just submitted it, let's see what happens!

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    Comment #29787287

    Linked above, I didn't know you could just submit a random site to a DDG to be included in bangs

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    Comment #29787278

    https://garlictoum.com/

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    Comment #29785714

    I tried creating a search engine for recipes. It works well and people like it, but the struggle is no one remembers that it exists and Google is just their default for search. So …

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    Comment #28882539

    Always good to see another recipe search engine! Curious how they're doing it, but a lot of things that I search for don't seem to work. It also seems to use a lot of recipe aggreg…

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    Comment #25369834

    I did that! Feel free to take a look at https://garlictoum.com - it crawls recipe sites and indexes them while providing some nice filtering!