Show HN: a blog search engine

  • Nice! As much as I like the minimalistic approach, I feel this need a bit more explanation. What does "blog search" mean? Does it search for blogs or within blogs? What is the definition of a blog? Which blogs does it search? How does it determine whether something is a blog or not (my blog does not seem to be included) Why would I want to specifically search blogs and not just use Google? These questions matter and should be explained by the product itself :)

  • Nice. Though, I agree with others that an explanation would kind of be helpful. Also since you're going with the minimalist approach, maybe make everything a bit bigger?

    Are you just searching within a subset of domains? If so, may I shamelessly recommend adding http://throwww.com to the list?

  • What advantages does Soto Search offer over Google Blogsearch (http://www.google.com/blogsearch) or Icerocket (http://www.icerocket.com/)?

  • Nice start! It's great to see small initiatives like this grow.

    Question: how are results being ranked? I did a search for "creativity" and got a slew of outdated (~22 days) results. Not quite what I was expecting.

  • some critics: http://sotosearch.com/search?query=android&ordering=best - results page is a mess of many languages, it would be better to detect language of page and user (by browser language) and use it for ranking

  • Honestly, the results are terrible.

  • Use cases?

  • Stack?

  • Did not work for me at all. Just keeps showing the spinning search indicator. I suspect Google Blog Search is about 1e+6 times more elaborate, so hardly there are any perspectives. Kudos for doing something anyway.