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Is there a good “blog search” out there?
There are certain keywords that are dominated by SEO optimization to the point that it is difficult to find results that are from other sources than a corporate website. Often the results I find most useful are the ones created by individuals in their "spare time" that they post on their blogs.
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
- demadog 4y agoThe 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.
- hidden-spyder 4y agoIs the custom Google search engine same as the main one in terms of its algorithm?
- demadog 4y agoPartially 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.
- macintux 4y agoPlease add "Ask HN:" to the front of posts like this.
- TekMol 4y agoAren't all those SEO optimized pages "blog posts"? How would a search engine separate the "bad" blogs from the "good" ones?
- cpach 4y agoI wonder this too. I kinda miss Twingly and Technorati. https://web.archive.org/web/20081101144747/http://www.twingly.com/about https://web.archive.org/web/20081101144747/http://www.twingl... https://web.archive.org/web/20080827193557/http://www.technorati.com/about/ https://web.archive.org/web/20080827193557/http://www.techno...
- mg 4y agoThe prerequesite would be a list of non spammy blogs. Could it be crowdsourced, similar to how ad blocker filter lists are crowdsourced?
- kklisura 4y agoThere was this [1], posted a month ago on HN [2]. [1] https://blogsurf.io/ https://blogsurf.io/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30844149 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30844149
- mg 4y agoThis 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.
- mawise 4y agoI'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.
- AnonHP 4y agoThe 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.
- Alekhine 4y agoMarginalia works pretty good for finding smaller blogs.
- ehaughee 4y agoMaybe https://teclis.com/ https://teclis.com/ from the makers of Kagi: https://kagi.com/ https://kagi.com/.
- onlinemark 4y ago[flagged]
- djbeadle 4y agoThere are some interesting alternative search engines listed in this thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783391 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30783391
- onlinemark 4y ago[flagged]
- listenfaster 4y agoI use millionshort to work past SEO glut: https://millionshort.com/ https://millionshort.com/ or use ddg bang !mill
- ufmace 4y agoMarginalia search engine is worth a try: https://search.marginalia.nu/ https://search.marginalia.nu/ It's a search engine meant to be biased towards long-form content with minimal marketing and javascript trickery
- polalavik 4y agoFor 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.
- NelsonMinar 4y agoFeedly 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.
- betwixthewires 4y agowiby.me only indexes pages without JS, so that's a start.
- ecedeno 4y agoI 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/ https://www.blogdorp.com/
- m-i-l 4y agoYou could try https://searchmysite.net https://searchmysite.net to search personal and independent websites.
- u2077 4y ago2 fairly good option I saved from HN: https://bloggingfordevs.com/trends/ https://bloggingfordevs.com/trends/ https://blogdb.org/blogs https://blogdb.org/blogs
- ffhhj 4y agoAwesome blogs: https://github.com/jkup/awesome-personal-blogs https://github.com/jkup/awesome-personal-blogs
- taoothereporter 4y agohttps://diff.blog/ https://diff.blog/
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- jenett 4y agoNot all searchable but a lot of blogs to discover: https://blogroll.org/ https://blogroll.org/ https://collection.mataroa.blog/ https://collection.mataroa.blog/ https://gossipsweb.net/ https://gossipsweb.net/ https://href.cool/ https://href.cool/ https://indieseek.xyz/links/ https://indieseek.xyz/links/ https://links.yesterweb.org/ https://links.yesterweb.org/ https://marijn.uk/linkroll/ https://marijn.uk/linkroll/ https://maya.land/blogroll.opml https://maya.land/blogroll.opml https://nodes.indieseek.xyz/ https://nodes.indieseek.xyz/ https://sadgrl.online/links.html https://sadgrl.online/links.html https://stumblingon.com/ https://stumblingon.com/ https://terra.finzdani.net/ https://terra.finzdani.net/ https://theforest.link/ https://theforest.link/ https://waxy.org/category/links/ https://waxy.org/category/links/ https://www.kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/ https://www.kickscondor.com/hrefhunt/ https://www.mojeek.com/ https://www.mojeek.com/ https://yesterweb.org/link-directory/ https://yesterweb.org/link-directory/