GarlicToum

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by GarlicToum 3y ago
In the modern age, SEO is partially to blame for inaccurate recipe cook times. At some point Google realized that folks would click on more recipes with shorter times, as people would use that as a metric when cooking. So they would promote
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by GarlicToum 5y ago
Yeah, that's the typo detection in search. The key thing is that "Natto" is prioritized, so that part is working correctly! Tweaking search can be a whole full time thing. I'll write it down and maybe look into if I can
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by GarlicToum 5y ago
Yeah, that was part of the long term monetization plan. Paid for user accounts ($3ish/month) that allow people to clip recipes, view previews, discuss, modify, and share. Never quite got around to it unfortunately, as I wanted more use
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by GarlicToum 5y ago
Just submitted it, let's see what happens!
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by GarlicToum 5y ago
Linked above, I didn't know you could just submit a random site to a DDG to be included in bangs
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by GarlicToum 5y ago
https://garlictoum.com/
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by GarlicToum 5y ago
I tried creating a search engine for recipes. It works well and people like it, but the struggle is no one remembers that it exists and Google is just their default for search. So from an individual developer perspective, it's very har
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by GarlicToum 5y ago
Always good to see another recipe search engine! Curious how they're doing it, but a lot of things that I search for don't seem to work. It also seems to use a lot of recipe aggregators in the few results I was able to find. Discl