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You should give http://www.commentfindder.com http://www.commentfindder.com a try. I believe it has a more extensive index than metareddit which I'm pretty sure

by babs474 13y ago

You should give http://www.commentfindder.com http://www.commentfindder.com a try. I believe it has a more extensive index than metareddit which I'm pretty sure is based on google search. I'd love any feedback.

seltzered_ 13y ago
I just spent some time on it - I like the concept! The one thing I noticed is that I noticed less comment-worthy opportunities on here compared to just doing a search on twitter (for my work, I just search for "photoshop shortcut" or "illustrator shortcut"). There might be some more worthy places to also incorporate search in (quora comes to mind)
graeme 13y ago
Some quick notes. Mostly negative, only because I haven't used it long enough to notice advantages. Overall, it looks like a good site. Hope these are helpful: * I couldn't block subreddits from the feed. In my case, LSAT is also a weapon in some popular videos games. On Metareddit, I was able to block the most common gaming subreddits so those results never came up. * Metareddit produced an actual feed I could check once a day for new comments. This is more of a search engine. * I have to hover over the link to see the subreddit. That's often very relevant Apart from that, looks good. And obviously, these criticism depend on your use case. I used metareddit specifically for monitoring.
- babs474 13y ago
  Thanks for the thoughts. I think the monitoring use case is a very natural next step. Basically "saved" searches. On commentfindder you can exclude specific subreddits with "-subreddit:askreddit" syntax or target subreddits by removing the minus. Of course, I should make this more obvious, right now its kind of a cheat code.
JayNeely 13y ago
I wish there were an RSS option for the search results sorted by recency. Would love to be able to see when there are new mentions for a term without having to come back and search frequently.
modemuser 13y ago
The metareddit monitor doesn't search through an index. It's a crawler that constantly fetches all new comments and submissions and looks for the (several thousand) keywords in each of them. Source: I run metareddit.

by babs474 13y ago

seltzered_ 13y ago

I just spent some time on it - I like the concept! The one thing I noticed is that I noticed less comment-worthy opportunities on here compared to just doing a search on twitter (for my work, I just search for "photoshop shortcut" or "illustrator shortcut"). There might be some more worthy places to also incorporate search in (quora comes to mind)

graeme 13y ago

Some quick notes. Mostly negative, only because I haven't used it long enough to notice advantages. Overall, it looks like a good site. Hope these are helpful: * I couldn't block subreddits from the feed. In my case, LSAT is also a weapon in some popular videos games. On Metareddit, I was able to block the most common gaming subreddits so those results never came up. * Metareddit produced an actual feed I could check once a day for new comments. This is more of a search engine. * I have to hover over the link to see the subreddit. That's often very relevant Apart from that, looks good. And obviously, these criticism depend on your use case. I used metareddit specifically for monitoring.

babs474 13y ago
Thanks for the thoughts. I think the monitoring use case is a very natural next step. Basically "saved" searches. On commentfindder you can exclude specific subreddits with "-subreddit:askreddit" syntax or target subreddits by removing the minus. Of course, I should make this more obvious, right now its kind of a cheat code.

JayNeely 13y ago

I wish there were an RSS option for the search results sorted by recency. Would love to be able to see when there are new mentions for a term without having to come back and search frequently.

modemuser 13y ago

The metareddit monitor doesn't search through an index. It's a crawler that constantly fetches all new comments and submissions and looks for the (several thousand) keywords in each of them. Source: I run metareddit.