That's nice. Will it start crawling for new feeds or they will be manually curated?
each user can add the feed they prefer then the system will automatically import the data daily
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#12> At the moment is not possible to add source Feed if you have feed proposals open an issue with the URLs to add What are the long-term plans for this? Building a crawler? Or just manual curation?
it is just a crawler
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#13Also: https://yup.is
very nice!
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#14Fantastic, great idea! The amount of job offers when searching for 'software engineering' is a bit annoying, though.
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#15That's nice. Will it start crawling for new feeds or they will be manually curated?
each user can add the feed they prefer then the system will automatically import the data daily
Great! Also, good insight for basing a search engine on RSS. It is naturally spam resistant: SEO people and other spammers don't like feeds because they cannot bring them clicks and ad views, so no incentive for spam.
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#16I like this idea a lot but this specific project is done pretty badly. There's a lot of spam and noise in results, and no real filtering system in place.
It would be awesome to create something like this from a massive archive of personal blogs in spaces like tech, development, design, etc. Basically, a massive RSS reader curated by the community itself.
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#17Super cool project!
I tried solving the search quality problem (for technical content like engineering blogs) a while back by filtering using heuristics based on websites/urls. At one point I was experimenting with RSS, but found that many websites only show the past X number of entries and gave up that direction since it excluded too much content.
Are you seeing a similar problem now?
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#18Super cool project! I tried solving the search quality problem (for technical content like engineering blogs) a while back by filtering using heuristics based on websites/urls. At one point I was experimenting with RSS, but found that many websites only show the past X number of entries and gave up that direction since it excluded too much content. Are you seeing a similar problem now?
Did you get it running?
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#19I was very excited by this and it's promising, but it needs a bit more work to be usable. I was hoping the RSS technique would help avoid the SEO and blogspam that Google is now filled with. Unfortunately, I still get quite a bit of that (my query was "espresso machine" and I got a bunch of listicles, etc). I think applying a layer of curation on top would go a long way to fixing this.
quick take, wouldn't it potentially compound the blogspam? Probably one of the largest providers of RSS these days are WordPress installs.
Yeah,and most SEO spam blogs are WP powered.
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#20Love the idea behind this. Generally any new way of attempting to find signal among the noise of the internet is good, and I think RSS is niche enough to automatically remove a ton of noise from the dataset, and the fact this will mostly target articles and blogs gives it a distinct flavor. Gonna put this with the marginalia astrolabe on my "small web search" bookmark folder.
What other stuff do you have in this 'folder'?
Not to disappoint, but currently Marginalia and now this.
(It used to just be Marginalia, no idea why it was a folder)
Though now that there's two I'm probably gonna pick up a few more from here that I like: https://seirdy.one/posts/2021/03/10/search-engines-with-own-...