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Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by farnsworth »

antimatter15 wrote: post #48

I'm the maintainer of the Google+ Hacker News Circle (Well, the script/cron job that makes a circle from hngp.axxim.net). I increased the frequency to every five minutes to keep up with the new growth. It's great that you're finding a use for it, but it's still irritating that the implementation of shared circles doesn't work well since you can only share a snapshot that users have to manually re-add in order to upda…

Agreed. They need to introduce a different "class" of circle that people can add/remove themselves from at will, or just subscribe to. Maybe you could call it... a group.

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by Frostbeard »

So, apparently there is a limit to the number of add-to-circle actions you can perform in a day. I added the circle and then removed it, and when I went to re-add I got an error: "You've reached the daily limit for adding to your circles. You can add more tomorrow."

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by brown9-2 »

Am I the only person that thinks that the results shown in the Google search for "jQuery" are horrible search results?

The results are:

1) a Google Plus post on "CodeAcademy teaches jQuery"

2) a Google Plus post on "15 Resources to Get You Started With jQuery from Scratch"

3) a Google Plus post on "Is there already a jQuery Plugin that provides a Google+ Circles...?"

If you were to search for just the word "jQuery", what are the chances that any of these are what you were looking for?

This really doesn't seem like an instance of knocking it out of the park.

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by [deleted] »

brown9-2 wrote: post #53

Am I the only person that thinks that the results shown in the Google search for "jQuery" are horrible search results? The results are: 1) a Google Plus post on "CodeAcademy teaches jQuery" 2) a Google Plus post on "15 Resources to Get You Started With jQuery from Scratch" 3) a Google Plus post on "Is there already a jQuery Plugin that provides a Google+ Circles...?" If you were to search for just the word "jQuery",…

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Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by [deleted] »

brown9-2 wrote: post #53

Am I the only person that thinks that the results shown in the Google search for "jQuery" are horrible search results? The results are: 1) a Google Plus post on "CodeAcademy teaches jQuery" 2) a Google Plus post on "15 Resources to Get You Started With jQuery from Scratch" 3) a Google Plus post on "Is there already a jQuery Plugin that provides a Google+ Circles...?" If you were to search for just the word "jQuery",…

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Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by freehunter »

badclient wrote: post #35
VikingCoder wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You apparently missed this: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hf5K14O6Fwc/Twufv9LK1PI/AAAAAAAAAL...

You apparently missed the overlarging bloat that google search has become in the past few years.

And this is a step to correct that. Search is hard, and its getting harder. SEO is ruining search, real human crowdsourced referrals offload the parts where algorithms cannot perform.

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by pessimist »

antimatter15 wrote: post #48

I'm the maintainer of the Google+ Hacker News Circle (Well, the script/cron job that makes a circle from hngp.axxim.net). I increased the frequency to every five minutes to keep up with the new growth. It's great that you're finding a use for it, but it's still irritating that the implementation of shared circles doesn't work well since you can only share a snapshot that users have to manually re-add in order to upda…

I'm worried seo spammers will start adding them to this circle. Does HN support some OAuth you can use to verify that those who add themselves are actual HN users? If you could require minimum karma points that would be awesome.

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by joshuahedlund »

pessimist wrote: post #58
antimatter15 wrote: post #48

I'm the maintainer of the Google+ Hacker News Circle (Well, the script/cron job that makes a circle from hngp.axxim.net). I increased the frequency to every five minutes to keep up with the new growth. It's great that you're finding a use for it, but it's still irritating that the implementation of shared circles doesn't work well since you can only share a snapshot that users have to manually re-add in order to upda…

I'm worried seo spammers will start adding them to this circle. Does HN support some OAuth you can use to verify that those who add themselves are actual HN users? If you could require minimum karma points that would be awesome.

Agreed. And I speak for everyone when I say that the arbitrary minimum karma should be "less than mine".

Re: Google+ Hacker News Circle makes Search plus Your World Amazing

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Post by chaosmachine »

antimatter15 wrote: post #48

I'm the maintainer of the Google+ Hacker News Circle (Well, the script/cron job that makes a circle from hngp.axxim.net). I increased the frequency to every five minutes to keep up with the new growth. It's great that you're finding a use for it, but it's still irritating that the implementation of shared circles doesn't work well since you can only share a snapshot that users have to manually re-add in order to upda…

It looks like there may be a problem:

"You've reached the daily limit for adding to your circles. You can add more tomorrow."

This happened when I tried to add any of the circles with 1000+ people. The one with 990 or so worked.

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