Well. Forgetting lowercase but doing the rest of the search parsing was a bit of a mistake. That should now be fixed, though it might take a little while to pro

Well. Forgetting lowercase but doing the rest of the search parsing was a bit of a mistake. That should now be fixed, though it might take a little while to propagate through the caches. --- There's really, really, not much to the tech behind it. Nothing surprising, and nothing really special. The website itself is 446 lines of a Python bottle app, behind an aggressive nginx cache. For example, the homepage is: @bottle.route("/") @bottle.view('home') def home(): # Get some random articles random_articles = [] for url in list(set(get_recent_urls(N=9))): random_articles.append(record(url)) random.shuffle(random_articles) random_articles = random_articles[:3] # Get the top tags tags = top_keywords(N=10) count = url_count() update = datetime.now() return {"articles": random_articles, "tags": tags, "count": count, "update": update, "tag_kind": 'Trending'} There's no... "magic" there. The link-fetcher is slightly larger at around 700 lines of Python, but most of it is taking edge-cases into account. Like finding where the timedata is hidden on a BBC page (comes as an epoch), or on CNN's lite site where it doesn't have a tag (and has to be manually parsed), etc. The vast majority, about half of the fetcher, is a series of fallbacks to keep trying until it finds something, before it finally gives up.