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I want to see niche search engines:

- a search engine for blogs

- a search engine for dev questions

- a search engine for shopping

- a search engine for diy

etc.

Im really tired of sites trying to centralize and own this content. The key to decentralizing and empowering individuals to own their content is enabling distribution and discovery. New search engines are essential to the web we want.



> a search engine for shopping

That would be nice especially since hopefully it would mean there would be a search engine I could use and not get shopping results. It seems like anytime I search for something I get shopping results so I have to be more specific and type more which is inconvenient. Wikipedia used to be the first result for many things I search for now it pretty much never is. It's been getting worse every year.

On a pretty unrelated note, it would also be nice if I could search the play app store without getting games in my results. There's pretty much a game related to everything I want to search for. Very annoying.


Anyone remember Technorati when it had a blog search engine? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technorati I recently noticed one of my old blog posts had Technorati tags in it, and that was a blast from the past. http://consumingexperience.com/2005/02/technorati-tags-intro...

I'm pretty sure that we won't see a significant blog search engine again until blogs regain some of the power they lost to social media.


google will neatly incorporate their results in their index and then people will go back to searching in google. I mean it happens with all major sites (stackoverflow, shopping results, diy/pinterest). Only twitter and facebook , who completely block their content from google get away. Perhaps we should take a lesson or two from them.


Tweets do show up in search though




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