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blog comments search engine

Started by djchuang · 9 months ago

Many great insights show up in the comment thread of blogs, especially on A-list blogs [FYI, I'm B-list]. I’m surprised that with web technologies multiplying on so many fronts that a search engine hasn’t been built sooner to crawl blog comments. Plus, now a growi ... Continue reading »

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  • Mike Montano

    9 months ago

    Thanks so much for the mention. We're ecstatic as well and we're working hard to make the service better.

    Perhaps when we find some time we should publish some "updated" statistics about the commentosphere.
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  • Charles Knight

    9 months ago

    What about www.omgili.com?
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  • clemoine

    9 months ago

    Hi,

    The issue with comment RSS feeds is that they are limited in size (number of items) and if you have a blog with lots of comment activity, an index server will need to scan the feed very frequently to get all comments: considering the number of sites with commenting, this will endup being an issue.

    Please note that coComment does not index only comments from our users: we also get all the comments from the conversations that our users track + all comments from integrated blogs.
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  • djchuang

    9 months ago

    @Mike - Thanks for the comment. I do hope to see this genre of comments search engine grow rapidly and soon.

    @clemoine Thanks for the clarification about coComment. My bad. What I couldn't figure out is how I can search the comments that are indexed for keywords or phrases -- it looks like search by tags is as close as it gets.

    Didn't know Comments RSS were limited (and I think Blog Posts RSS are probably limited too). That being the case, would it be as simple as a "ping" from the blog comment feed as needed, e.g. if the limit is 50 comments, a ping every 50 comments.
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  • clemoine

    9 months ago

    True: we are now offering search on title, urls, users, tags...... Search on comment text is coming very soon and you will be able to search in the millions of conversations we have.

    The issue with the ping is that it is treated asynchronously: this mean that if you get some comments between the ping and when the server actually get the feed, some might be lost. But, this said, it will probably work for most blogs, but will not be 100% reliable.
    With blog posts it is not too much an issue as the update frequency is lower (except if you post very very frequently ;-) )

    Christophe.
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  • human3rror

    8 months ago

    mentioned the "pure" breeds in response to your q. good stuff, thanks for the pointer.
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  • human3rror

    8 months ago

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  • shad sluiter

    2 months ago

    Blog comments are what give spice to the information published. What a nice reality check to find that some people have alternative opinions. Sometimes I finish an article at cnn in total agreement with the author, but then run right into a buzz saw of opposition who bring up good arguments against the author.
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