From 39021e885ddc38140ca9c87eacd023f0c7f2a1fc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Seirdy Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2024 01:59:43 -0500 Subject: [PATCH] Add Weblog Database --- content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi | 4 +++- content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md | 3 +++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi b/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi index 3661bf8..9e1c1b0 100644 --- a/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi +++ b/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.gmi @@ -174,9 +174,11 @@ Results from these search engines don’t seem at all useful. => https://www.prologic.blog/2021/02/14/so-im-a.html Blog post introducing Spyda => https://git.mills.io/prologic/spyda Spyda source code -Slzii.com: A new web portal with a search engine. Has a tiny index dominated by SEO spam. Discovered in the seirdy.one access logs. +* Slzii.com: A new web portal with a search engine. Has a tiny index dominated by SEO spam. Discovered in the seirdy.one access logs. +* Weblog DataBase: a metadata search engine for technical blogs. Very small index and ranking seems poor, but it seems to have different goals from most search engines: it encourages filtering search results iteratively until finding the desired subset of results. The index updates weekly and not all features are implemented yet. => https://www.slzii.com/ Slzii.com +=> https://www.weblogdb.com/ Weblog DataBase ### Semi-independent indexes diff --git a/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md b/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md index 15967a0..eae10fa 100644 --- a/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md +++ b/content/posts/search-engines-with-own-indexes.md @@ -209,6 +209,9 @@ Scopia [Slzii.com](https://www.slzii.com/) : A new web portal with a search engine. Has a tiny index dominated by SEO spam. Discovered in the seirdy.one access logs. +[Weblog DataBase](https://www.weblogdb.com/) +: A metadata search engine for technical blogs. Very small index and ranking seems poor, but it seems to have [different goals from most search engines](https://www.weblogdb.com/about/): it encourages filtering search results iteratively until finding the desired subset of results. The index updates weekly and not all features are implemented yet. + ### Semi-independent indexes Engines in this category fall back to GBY when their own indexes don't have enough results. As their own indexes grow, some claim that this should happen less often.