dato
AI
search engine
SHOW HN2022
How HN took it
5 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 3 mixed, 2 critical, out of 14 comments about the project. Thread score +0.06.
Idea: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 againstPerformance: 1 for, 0 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
RSS base removes noise and spam; spam resistant because feeds bring no ad clicks
From 2 comments
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…
toa697 on HNGreat! 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…
gaius_baltar on HN
Fast and interesting idea
From 2 comments
awesome, very cool and very fast!
dsantangelo on HNLove 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…
toa697 on HN
Objections
Results contain spam, SEO listicles and blogspam
From 3 comments
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…
skilled on HNI 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…
kbyatnal on HNso far a few searches haven't shown one relevant result, and a lot of strange spam
llamataboot on HN
Feed selection includes low-quality traditional news feeds
From 1 comment
The major problem is the selection of the RSS feeds. If you look at the list of feeds you see a lot of traditional news feeds like CNN or New York Post. These are well covered in…
pasttense01 on HN
Job offers clutter results for software engineering queries
From 1 comment
Fantastic, great idea! The amount of job offers when searching for 'software engineering' is a bit annoying, though.
edding4500 on HN
Requests
Add curation or filtering layer on top of results
From 2 comments
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…
kbyatnal on HNI 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…
skilled on HN
Community-curated archive of personal tech blogs
From 1 comment
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…
skilled on HN
Questions
Will feeds be crawled or manually curated
From 2 comments
That's nice. Will it start crawling for new feeds or they will be manually curated?
gaius_baltar on HN> 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…
aendruk on HN
Does RSS coverage miss content since many sites show only recent entries
From 1 comment
Super cool project! I tried solving the search quality problem (for technical content like engineering blogs) a while back by filtering using heuristics based on websites/urls.…
0x9b on HN
Alternatives named
Marginalia search
From 2 comments
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…
toa697 on HNNot to disappoint, but currently Marginalia and now this. (It used to just be Marginalia, no idea why it was a folder) Though now that there's two I'm probably gonna pick up a…
toa697 on HN
Google search
From 1 comment
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…
kbyatnal on HN