[HN Gopher] Is there a good "blog search" out there?
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Is there a good "blog search" out there?
There are certain keywords that are dominated by SEO optimization
to the point that it is difficult to find results that are from
other sources than a corporate website. Often the results I find
most useful are the ones created by individuals in their "spare
time" that they post on their blogs. Is there a good "blog search"
out there? Is there currently something like Google Blog Search
out there? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Blog_Search
Author : pajtai
Score : 73 points
Date : 2022-05-07 15:11 UTC (7 hours ago)
| kklisura wrote:
| There was this [1], posted a month ago on HN [2].
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| [1] https://blogsurf.io/
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| [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30844149
| mg wrote:
| This shows how hard it is to make such a search engine.
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| I tried "indie makers" and "digital nomad" in the directory and
| both listed only one blog: Pieter Levels. And that one is dead
| for quite a while and just redirects to his Twitter.
| mawise wrote:
| I've emailed with the blogsurf operator, they have a really
| cool Ranking algorithm but it's expensive to run so they only
| index a relatively small number of blogs.
| Alekhine wrote:
| Marginalia works pretty good for finding smaller blogs.
| ehaughee wrote:
| Maybe https://teclis.com/ from the makers of Kagi:
| https://kagi.com/.
| u2077 wrote:
| 2 fairly good option I saved from HN:
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| https://bloggingfordevs.com/trends/
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| https://blogdb.org/blogs
| cpach wrote:
| I wonder this too.
|
| I kinda miss Twingly and Technorati.
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| https://web.archive.org/web/20081101144747/http://www.twingl...
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| https://web.archive.org/web/20080827193557/http://www.techno...
| demadog wrote:
| The only thing I've figured out that works is building a Google
| Custom Search Engine with your favorite list of 50-100 blogs but
| it's far from perfect and doesn't help with new discovery.
| hidden-spyder wrote:
| Is the custom Google search engine same as the main one in
| terms of its algorithm?
| demadog wrote:
| Partially but no, it's comparatively pretty bad after playing
| with it a lot.
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| It seems to be based on a much older and more literal
| algorithm where it buries a relevant post on page 3 just
| because the keyword was not perfectly in the title.
|
| Probably intentional or they just don't prioritize since a
| small % of people use it.
|
| Better to use "site:" search for your fav blogs instead.
| betwixthewires wrote:
| wiby.me only indexes pages without JS, so that's a start.
| onlinemark wrote:
| ecedeno wrote:
| I had that exact same thought last year and threw together a
| small project[1] to index some blogs. I didn't work much on it,
| though.
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| [1] https://www.blogdorp.com/
| djbeadle wrote:
| There are some interesting alternative search engines listed in
| this thread:
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| https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783391
| m-i-l wrote:
| You could try https://searchmysite.net to search personal and
| independent websites.
| onlinemark wrote:
| listenfaster wrote:
| I use millionshort to work past SEO glut:
| https://millionshort.com/ or use ddg bang !mill
| ufmace wrote:
| Marginalia search engine is worth a try:
| https://search.marginalia.nu/
|
| It's a search engine meant to be biased towards long-form content
| with minimal marketing and javascript trickery
| macintux wrote:
| Please add "Ask HN:" to the front of posts like this.
| pajtai wrote:
| Sorry, thanks for the tip. Looks like I cannot edit the title
| anymore, sorry.
| macintux wrote:
| Not a big deal, just makes it harder to identify, and
| occasionally people will collate past "Ask HN" topics for
| various purposes.
| TekMol wrote:
| Aren't all those SEO optimized pages "blog posts"?
|
| How would a search engine separate the "bad" blogs from the
| "good" ones?
| cpach wrote:
| Google used to be _great_ at exactly that.
| pajtai wrote:
| As a person I can tell the difference, so I'm sure search
| engines could, maybe in the future if not now, figure it out.
| cpach wrote:
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PageRank
| mg wrote:
| The prerequesite would be a list of non spammy blogs.
|
| Could it be crowdsourced, similar to how ad blocker filter lists
| are crowdsourced?
| NelsonMinar wrote:
| Feedly has a "search all Feedly" mode. That will capture mostly
| blogs or at least things with RSS feeds. As folks have said blogs
| ain't what they used to be, many blog-like sites now are
| aggressively managed content farms.
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| You probably know this but a lot of folks find adding "reddit" to
| a search term helps them find genuine discussions.
| polalavik wrote:
| For tech specific: refined.blog is a good resource. Not
| necessarily sure it counts as a search engine, but definitely a
| good aggregation of tech blogs.
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