[HN Gopher] Show HN: A search engine based on RSS feed
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       Show HN: A search engine based on RSS feed
        
       Author : daviducolo
       Score  : 105 points
       Date   : 2022-09-14 06:27 UTC (1 days ago)
        
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       | edding4500 wrote:
       | Fantastic, great idea! The amount of job offers when searching
       | for 'software engineering' is a bit annoying, though.
        
       | aendruk wrote:
       | > 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?
        
         | daviducolo wrote:
         | it is just a crawler
        
       | llamataboot wrote:
       | so far a few searches haven't shown one relevant result, and a
       | lot of strange spam
        
       | gaius_baltar wrote:
       | That's nice. Will it start crawling for new feeds or they will be
       | manually curated?
        
         | daviducolo wrote:
         | each user can add the feed they prefer then the system will
         | automatically import the data daily
        
           | gaius_baltar wrote:
           | 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.
        
       | marban wrote:
       | Also: https://yup.is
        
         | simplecto wrote:
         | Very cool discovery, and your biztoc.com work as well!
        
         | daviducolo wrote:
         | very nice!
        
       | kbyatnal wrote:
       | I 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.
        
         | mgr86 wrote:
         | quick take, wouldn't it potentially compound the blogspam?
         | Probably one of the largest providers of RSS these days are
         | WordPress installs.
        
       | skilled wrote:
       | I 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.
        
       | toa697 wrote:
       | Love 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.
        
         | assadk wrote:
         | What other stuff do you have in this 'folder'?
        
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