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Re: Show HN: Bubblehunt – curated web search

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Post by imron »

vkorsunov wrote: post #2

Hello friends! Bubblehunt lets people find & share quality resources. We are creating curated web search, where people can choose best results and help others to find it. Considering extremely high growth of the web, it is becoming harder to find new & quality resources. This is where Bubblehunt comes in. Finding interesting results becomes much easier as they are recommended by people, not dumb machines. Every user…

> feedback please

Light grey text on a light grey background is difficult to read.

Re: Show HN: Bubblehunt – curated web search

#14

Post by feed16 »

It's worth giving this idea a try.

1. I wish there was a different way to sign up, without needing Facebook or Twitter.

2. Can I add resources, to see how it works, without signing up? Like try it out for a week (with cookies), and if I like it then I can sign up?

3. Will this approach let you do something Google can't? Why/how?

Re: Show HN: Bubblehunt – curated web search

#15

Post by effie »

vkorsunov wrote: post #2

Hello friends! Bubblehunt lets people find & share quality resources. We are creating curated web search, where people can choose best results and help others to find it. Considering extremely high growth of the web, it is becoming harder to find new & quality resources. This is where Bubblehunt comes in. Finding interesting results becomes much easier as they are recommended by people, not dumb machines. Every user…

It seems like a great idea. But how do you protect results from malicious users and spambots? How do you solve the positive feedback problem? And I can't see the upvote/downvote buttons (Chromium 47.

Re: Show HN: Bubblehunt – curated web search

#16

Post by vkorsunov »

effie wrote: post #15
vkorsunov wrote: post #2

Hello friends! Bubblehunt lets people find & share quality resources. We are creating curated web search, where people can choose best results and help others to find it. Considering extremely high growth of the web, it is becoming harder to find new & quality resources. This is where Bubblehunt comes in. Finding interesting results becomes much easier as they are recommended by people, not dumb machines. Every user…

It seems like a great idea. But how do you protect results from malicious users and spambots? How do you solve the positive feedback problem? And I can't see the upvote/downvote buttons (Chromium 47.

Thank you Effie!) We will protect users against spam that registration with us through social accounts. This will complicate the creation of bots. And if you add uninteresting or irrelevant resources, our ranking system will place them in the end. Therefore, our users will always see all the most useful results on request)

Fix coming soon)

Re: Show HN: Bubblehunt – curated web search

#17

Post by vkorsunov »

imron wrote: post #11
vkorsunov wrote: post #2

Hello friends! Bubblehunt lets people find & share quality resources. We are creating curated web search, where people can choose best results and help others to find it. Considering extremely high growth of the web, it is becoming harder to find new & quality resources. This is where Bubblehunt comes in. Finding interesting results becomes much easier as they are recommended by people, not dumb machines. Every user…

> feedback please Light grey text on a light grey background is difficult to read.

Thank you! We'll fix that

Re: Show HN: Bubblehunt – curated web search

#18

Post by kwhitefoot »

vkorsunov wrote: post #2

Hello friends! Bubblehunt lets people find & share quality resources. We are creating curated web search, where people can choose best results and help others to find it. Considering extremely high growth of the web, it is becoming harder to find new & quality resources. This is where Bubblehunt comes in. Finding interesting results becomes much easier as they are recommended by people, not dumb machines. Every user…

Do I really have to have a Facebook or Twitter account?

Re: Show HN: Bubblehunt – curated web search

#19

Post by vkorsunov »

pkd wrote: post #9

Wasn't Yahoo! something along similar lines when they started? With hand curated links and resources available for search? It is interesting to see that a 20 year old idea is still found viable by many today while it was largely considered obsolete when Google came into picture.

Yes, today there are many curated catalogs) We strive to ensure that each user can create their own search engine, own intranet, on which he and suitable on request people to obtain results from the sites selected by the people.

We want to build a search on the Favorite Web)

Re: Show HN: Bubblehunt – curated web search

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Post by kwhitefoot »

vkorsunov wrote: post #2

Hello friends! Bubblehunt lets people find & share quality resources. We are creating curated web search, where people can choose best results and help others to find it. Considering extremely high growth of the web, it is becoming harder to find new & quality resources. This is where Bubblehunt comes in. Finding interesting results becomes much easier as they are recommended by people, not dumb machines. Every user…

I searched for flat leather sandals and the first three things on the results page were:

- something called Jane Design that gave an internal server error when clicked,

- two links to some UI framework

The rest of the page was the output of a Google custom search.

So the idea sounds interesting but first impressions are definitely zero out of ten.

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