Feedster

16 Oct 2004

I really don't know why I still bother checking feedster for things, I cannot remember the last time it returned anything useful for me. It's just a pain in the arse. It is much faster now than before and that's fine, but they are including tons of weird shit in their database now like news sources from places like Google News, Newsnation etc.

Why is this irritating? Because it means you cant actually find BLOGS easily because you are bombarded with tens of news aggregators spewing out the shit that organized news sources dish up as fact. Really, if I wanted to read crap that politicians pay to get into news papers I would buy one, or read Google News.

The world really do need a blog search engine :(

Posted by R.I.Pienaar on Saturday, October 16, 2004 at 4:59 PM

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We hear ya (and the other folks who've said something similar). We're testing blogs-only search at blogs.feedster.net -- It's not quite right yet, so please let us know what you think.

Scott Rafer | October 17, 2004 3:10 PM | Reply

Hey,

That seems a good start, what would be sweet is a directory of blogs, something like asking "find me blogs about whatever" and based on descriptions and keyword matching of past posts you do recommendations.

Anyhow, so I figured this kind of announcement probably make it to your blog, so I subscribed to scot.feedster.com but all your feeds - unlike advertised - contains comments! What if you don't want comments?

So now I am unsubscribed again :(

R.I.Pienaar | October 18, 2004 8:58 PM | Reply

Hi,

It depends on which feed you subscribe to. There is a feed w/ comments and a feed w/o.

Here's the feed w/o comments:

http://scott.feedster.com/rss.php?version=2.0

And just to be safe -- I checked it in an aggregator (RSS Bandit) and it didn't display any comments.

Scott

Scott Johnson of Feedster | November 3, 2004 10:21 PM | Reply

Hi Again,

I was wondering what kinds of queries you're running on Feedster -- if you want to email me at Scott a[T] feedster.com, I'd be happy to check over the engine and see what I can do to avoid your problems.

Best
Scott

Scott Johnson of Feedster | November 3, 2004 10:25 PM | Reply

Sure, so in this feed you suggest I use I find:

<wfw:commentRss>
http://scott.feedster.com/rss.php?version=2.0&type=comments&cid=82
</wfw:commentRss>

Right now there arent any comments to show, but if your aggregator has a clue it will sure as hell pick them up when they get posted.

R.I.Pienaar | November 3, 2004 10:28 PM | Reply

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