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Yes, I do filter out any chaff, since the scripts I have crawling the web to generate keyword ideas aren't perfect!

Right now they're monitoring the obvious techie havens, but I'm looking to expand their coverage to be more comprehensive.

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When building a system that surfaces interesting trends, you have to be careful about curating which historic examples you show. People will craft their understanding of predictive power based on those examples... but if the examples aren't representative (i.e. randomly sampled) of the algorithm, then you're selling people rainbows and unicorns.

Ok, anyway cool app! I actually found some cool trends via this.

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