Is there a good “blog search” out there?
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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
It's a search engine meant to be biased towards long-form content with minimal marketing and javascript trickery
2 fairly good option I saved from HN:
https://bloggingfordevs.com/trends/
https://blogdb.org/blogs
https://bloggingfordevs.com/trends/
https://blogdb.org/blogs
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.
You probably know this but a lot of folks find adding "reddit" to a search term helps them find genuine discussions.
You probably know this but a lot of folks find adding "reddit" to a search term helps them find genuine discussions.
There was this [1], posted a month ago on HN [2].
[1] https://blogsurf.io/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30844149
[1] https://blogsurf.io/
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30844149
The blogsurf.io site cannot fulfill this need as it is a manual effort by the maintainer. I submitted a blog around the time it was on a Show HN here and that’s still not added (said blog is not some marketing or sales blog with low value). Seems like the maintainer is selective in accepting submissions based on their biases or is too busy.
This shows how hard it is to make such a search engine.
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.
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.
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.
Not all searchable but a lot of blogs to discover:
https://blogroll.org/
https://collection.mataroa.blog/
https://gossipsweb.net/
https://href.cool/
https://indieseek.xyz/links/
https://links.yesterweb.org/
https://marijn.uk/linkroll/
https://maya.land/blogroll.opml
https://nodes.indieseek.xyz/
https://sadgrl.online/links.html
https://stumblingon.com/
https://terra.finzdani.net/
https://theforest.link/
https://waxy.org/category/links/
https://www.kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/
https://www.mojeek.com/
https://yesterweb.org/link-directory/
https://blogroll.org/
https://collection.mataroa.blog/
https://gossipsweb.net/
https://href.cool/
https://indieseek.xyz/links/
https://links.yesterweb.org/
https://marijn.uk/linkroll/
https://maya.land/blogroll.opml
https://nodes.indieseek.xyz/
https://sadgrl.online/links.html
https://stumblingon.com/
https://terra.finzdani.net/
https://theforest.link/
https://waxy.org/category/links/
https://www.kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/
https://www.mojeek.com/
https://yesterweb.org/link-directory/
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.
Is the custom Google search engine same as the main one in terms of its algorithm?
Partially but no, it’s comparatively pretty bad after playing with it a lot.
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.
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.
I wonder this too.
I kinda miss Twingly and Technorati.
https://web.archive.org/web/20081101144747/http://www.twingl...
https://web.archive.org/web/20080827193557/http://www.techno...
I kinda miss Twingly and Technorati.
https://web.archive.org/web/20081101144747/http://www.twingl...
https://web.archive.org/web/20080827193557/http://www.techno...
The prerequesite would be a list of non spammy blogs.
Could it be crowdsourced, similar to how ad blocker filter lists are crowdsourced?
Could it be crowdsourced, similar to how ad blocker filter lists are crowdsourced?
Marginalia works pretty good for finding smaller blogs.
Maybe https://teclis.com/ from the makers of Kagi: https://kagi.com/.
I use millionshort to work past SEO glut: https://millionshort.com/ or use ddg bang !mill
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.
[1] https://www.blogdorp.com/
[1] https://www.blogdorp.com/
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There are some interesting alternative search engines listed in this thread:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783391
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783391
Awesome blogs: https://github.com/jkup/awesome-personal-blogs
You could try https://searchmysite.net to search personal and independent websites.
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.
Aren't all those SEO optimized pages "blog posts"?
How would a search engine separate the "bad" blogs from the "good" ones?
How would a search engine separate the "bad" blogs from the "good" ones?
Google used to be great at exactly that.
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.
wiby.me only indexes pages without JS, so that's a start.
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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