My reaction is a big "wha???" I don't understand what is supposed to be done, even after clicking on the "what is a slashtag" link. Maybe I'm getting old? Can the site describe what it does without a video? I hate clicking on videos. Anyhow, that's my reaction, FWIW.
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#12Its based on ShashTags and has API. I can not find how to add/edit my SlashTag via an API. Since I run a directory that would really help them, its a bit of a pain. I do like the search though.
You can embed a slashtag search box on your own site.
And you can hit us on rss by adding /rss to any search.
We intend to fill out more APIs after the launch.
The goal was to first get the site open to humans..
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#13Looks good. I still think the name is going to be hard to market to the general public.
After I checked out the site a few months back, I couldn't remember the name. It's also hard to say over the phone without spelling it out.
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#14I lost interest the moment you told me I couldn't sign up because I'm not in one of the 'geographic regions' you opened up. What's the point of that? I could very well just tunnel to a server or use one of my paid VPNs, which I'd actually do if I knew it was of any value to me (as I used to do with Hulu), but since I don't I don't feel compelled to do so.
Edit: I'd argue that you want your service adopted by people instead of them feeling left out because of where they live. Maybe you should have constraints on the number of users and not on where they reside. I can easily see interested parties now not using the service when it's open to them because of this.
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#15Very cool idea! I set up a slashtag for "hackers": /zb/hack http://blekko.com/ws/+/view+/zb/hack I couldn't really think of what sites to add, so right now its just HN & stackoverflow.
There are a bunch of /blekko slashtags for hackers, including /hacker /cracker /make /hackerspaces.
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#16Its based on ShashTags and has API. I can not find how to add/edit my SlashTag via an API. Since I run a directory that would really help them, its a bit of a pain. I do like the search though.
To create slashtags from your existing data, you can paste in lists of links, or upload a text file containing links.
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#17Pretty cool. How long before they get acquired by Google?
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#18I don't think I get it.. The slashing, is this like public bookmarks? How will they stop spammers / SEO gamers? They say search results shall involve people, but spammers and SEO gamers are people too.
I don't get it either. I tried it out a month or two ago and to me it's just not that useful and doesn't give me anything that delicious, or custom Google search doesn't give me. Or maybe I am just the wrong audience.
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#19Like some of the others, I don't get it either. I think this is curated search results? I don't grok.
And the name is ... blech-o? I'm not mocking or making fun, I'm just saying.
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#20This is great. I looks good, feels responsive, works well.
Starting a new search engine seems like crazy, but if anything can win out, this seems like it should.
Who's doing the design work and frontend? How big are you? [Also - just checked you jobs page - what you use Perl for?]