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>Even the most obscure entry or innocuous comment on a forum is usually saved somewhere, and with enough digging can be found. You've heard of Google, but there
by bitcurious 7y ago
>Even the most obscure entry or innocuous comment on a forum is usually saved somewhere, and with enough digging can be found. You've heard of Google, but there are several other search engines that specialise in this.
That's a very interesting throwaway line; anyone know what those products are?
- jobigoud 7y agoYeah, at some point Google had an option to search specifically in groups and forums but they killed it. I would also very much like a forum-specific search engine, very often I'm looking for discussion about a subject rather than the subject itself. Ideally it would source from forums, reddit/HN/Digg and the like, comments directly under articles/blogs, Wikipedia talk pages, archives of newsgroups, mailing lists, Google groups and Yahoo groups, etc.
- Gigablah 7y agoThe Wayback Machine would fit the bill.
- elliekelly 7y agoFor reddit there’s the Pushshift API[1] that archives posts & comments at or around the time of submission. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/bcxguf/new_to_pushshift_read_this_faq/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf https://www.reddit.com/r/pushshift/comments/bcxguf/new_to_pu...