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bubblehunt.com

16 points by vvvkkk 9 years ago · 13 comments

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fiatjaf 9 years ago

I think this is genius. I don't know how am I going to use it. Probably I wont because I couldn't think of any practical use of it now, but it really is nice, I'll recommend it whenever I find the opportunity, I hope it succeeds.

  • vvvkkkOP 9 years ago

    Thank you friend! :)

    We working on usecases and I think soon we make our system more understandable. I see you wrote about errors, we fixed them. In our system uploading thousands of sites for indexation and we have a big load, we will soon increase capacity and will be able to index sites faster.

    Thank you so much! Stay tuned :)

vvvkkkOP 9 years ago

Hi everyone! We developing Bubblehunt (https://bubblehunt.com) - common-based search platform, where you can create own search system without code.

Add interesting sites and resources in your profile and get your search system. Now it's public beta, you can add unlimited resources, but now 1 link - 1 indexed page. We working on deep indexing system and soon you can see our crawler, but we need improve our platform, architecture and other. On our platform now >150.000 resources, that handpicked and added by users.

I think when you are designer and add 1000 best resources for design - it can be better search system for this topic.

On Bubblehunt you can provide your opinion for ANY topic. It can be more transparent, flexible, democratic search system, where people select best resources for search.

And where every opinion is important and can be different.

If you have questions, feedback or any ideas you can write here or drop me lines on vlad@bubblehunt.com

  • edward_rolf 9 years ago

    Very nice work. A couple of questions.

    If I create a search bubble with my take on "everything tennis", will the contents of that bubble be available in your global web search when someone searches for tennis related concepts?

    Can bubbles be composed of content not on the web?

    I think if you made your site look less like a social platform and more like a cloud tool, businesses might become more interested.

    Edited: thought I saw a bug but I was wrong so removed the bug report

    Edit2: maybe you have a bug after all? Compare these results: [0][1].

    [0] https://bubblehunt.com/@web?q=president%20donald%20trumq%20i...

    [1] https://bubblehunt.com/@web?q=president%20donald%20trumq%20i...

    No fuzzyness on "islam"?

    • vvvkkkOP 9 years ago

      Hi! Thank you :) Yes, this is a bug, we must correct words with errors and we improve it soon.

      "Can bubbles be composed of content not on the web?" Yes, soon you can upload .pdf and other files to your search system. Maybe you have other suggestions?

  • vvvkkkOP 9 years ago
  • edward_rolf 9 years ago

    You say on your site you will never track me without permission. Can you describe in a sentence or two your privacy policy?

    • vvvkkkOP 9 years ago

      Sure, we don't track and store your search requests. We get information only about sites that you added in profile and using this data only for creating search index for you.

  • fiatjaf 9 years ago

    Couldn't add a resource. Some sort of Javascript bug showed up in the console.

  • edward_rolf 9 years ago

    Can you describe your setup and your tech stack?

mulrian 9 years ago

What stack are you using behind the scenes to power the search? Are you storing each webpage and then doing full-text search or are you trying to pick out keywords from the resources and then match that way?

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