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Show HN: Bubblehunt – curated web search

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Wasn't Yahoo! something along similar lines when they started? With hand curated links and resources available for search? It is interesting to see that a 20 year old idea is still found viable by many today while it was largely considered obsolete when Google came into picture.

Yes, today there are many curated catalogs) We strive to ensure that each user can create their own search engine, own intranet, on which he and suitable on request people to obtain results from the sites selected by the people.

We want to build a search on the Favorite Web)

Hello friends!

Bubblehunt lets people find & share quality resources. We are creating curated web search, where people can choose best results and help others to find it.

Considering extremely high growth of the web, it is becoming harder to find new & quality resources. This is where Bubblehunt comes in. Finding interesting results becomes much easier as they are recommended by people, not dumb machines.

Every user can create a bubble with his favorite resources and provide best results for search queries based on their opinion. We've combined search and human opinions to let people cut through the noise of the web and share the best resources.

Get feedback please)

This will never scale. Too much human work.

Also how is it different than Google or Bing, which capture people's surfing/clicking habits to find the best sites ?

Another way to reach similar result - is a use the curation people already done , i.e. forums, and particularly , forums with voting mechanisms. If you'll build a good forum search engine - that would be useful.

And we do not need to index the entire Internet, users can add their own resources, and we will seek among the favorites.

For example, Jonathan Ive (opinion leader on design) will be able to say: look, here I have collected all the best sites, this is news, this is tools, look for everything related to the design here!

And as any other man. Our search engine will look at user's favorite internet and algorithms to choose the most suitable bubbles)

In the Google, sites in the first places only become more popular and getting there very difficult) We have sites selected users)

This is what they wanted to do with +1 button, and we believe that our formula is more correct)

Thank you, we will build a system that indexes user intranets and provide the most relevant results)

I remember how poor Wikipedia was in its early days. It has scaled largely based on human work to make it better.

There's a lot of scale between a "Show HN" and Bing, never mind Google. And a lot of room for better search results at least some time, and a lot of room for a better search experience pretty much a lot of the time.

I agree! Wikipedia in the beginning there was very little information, but it did not stop them and now we are using it for more information.

Our users can also contribute to the improvement of the search. We all have favorites bookmarks, that we use, and each of us knows what resources we like. And this is enough to help others discover new and useful information.

Because we will be able to index user-specified resources quickly, as soon as something new and useful.

And in the search results will be dynamic results. For example, we introduce the "design", and obtain search results from designers, introduce the "php" - we get the results from the developers.

And there may be the most popular and useful resources, latest news, tools and other work, what kind of people) use

This will allow us to get a whole lot of responses to a search query)

> feedback please

Light grey text on a light grey background is difficult to read.

Thank you! We'll fix that

It seems like a great idea. But how do you protect results from malicious users and spambots? How do you solve the positive feedback problem? And I can't see the upvote/downvote buttons (Chromium 47.

Thank you Effie!) We will protect users against spam that registration with us through social accounts. This will complicate the creation of bots. And if you add uninteresting or irrelevant resources, our ranking system will place them in the end. Therefore, our users will always see all the most useful results on request)

Fix coming soon)

Do I really have to have a Facebook or Twitter account?

Yes, this is necessary to reduce the risk of spam and create a large number of bots.

I searched for flat leather sandals and the first three things on the results page were:

- something called Jane Design that gave an internal server error when clicked,

- two links to some UI framework

The rest of the page was the output of a Google custom search.

So the idea sounds interesting but first impressions are definitely zero out of ten.

I completely agree) The work is still very much)

Choose best results by clicking upvote button

The upvote button does not seem to appear on Firefox.

Nor in Chrome on iOS.

Thank you! We will fix it)

I did a couple searches, but shouldn't the result be sorted by upvotes?

We made simple algorithms is at the top should be results primarily based on upvoting. We fix this, and we will improve in the future)

What is difference between this and google search?

bubblesearch uses a bubblesort on the index.

not really. or at least i hope not.

In google running as PageRank. We use PeopleRank)

We do not index the entire Internet. We only index the Intranets users.

We look not at the PageRank (ie number of links). We look at the opinions of people.

And our algorithms try to select the most best intranets of experts, opinion leaders and others. That is the most relevant people.

It's worth giving this idea a try.

1. I wish there was a different way to sign up, without needing Facebook or Twitter.

2. Can I add resources, to see how it works, without signing up? Like try it out for a week (with cookies), and if I like it then I can sign up?

3. Will this approach let you do something Google can't? Why/how?

Hi!)

1. We will soon connect authorization via Google +

2. To add the resources is needed profile. However, each user can use the search without authorization. This is necessary to minimize spam.

3. Yes, we will be able to search among the selected resources. We can thus see a variety of search results offered by the people. And get a lot of opinions on request.

Google rarely changes the results. You enter the "Design" and get the same sites today / tomorrow / next day. It popular resources become only more popular. We offer much more dynamic search, where people form the search results with the best resources)

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