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I've noticed many product pages these days do some "scroll enhancements" through javascript. This page seems to do that as well. It's very annoying!

The page doesn't really explain what the bookmarklet does, only how I install it. I'd like to know what it does first :)

You can click this bookmarklet to get suggestions on similar pages when you're reading an article that you arrived at from hacker news or reddit. Seems like this service uses solr to index the articles as well as their content. Would love to hear more about the indexing strategy from the author.

Hi, thanks for the question and sorry for the late feedback :)

Yes, its a solr index behind. I did a lot of stuff with LibLinear [1] for my masters, in combination with Apache OpenNLP [2]. With a mix of clustering and a lot of fun with lucene (3.x at that time) and sentiment analysis. Now, some years later, I re-thought my pretty buggy approach from the past and wanted to do something with that. A small side product is this bookmarklet.

The crawling is a pretty basic web-scraping approach in Java. Not in-code (like Jsoup), but with a Firefox in a Framebuffer with a Webdriver, because I wanted to be able to have the full power of a modern browser rendering engine, instead of a in-code content-download.

[1] http://www.csie.ntu.edu.tw/~cjlin/liblinear/ [2] https://opennlp.apache.org/

When you drag&drop this bookmarklet to your bookmarks, nothing happens. The magic happens afterwards when you are visiting a site outside of nagrgtr: Inside the bookmark is a little javascript script that reads the URL you are just visiting and sends it to:

http://nagrgtr.com/morelikethis/URL

thats it. Have a look at the href behind the link, its really simple as that.

Greetings from Austria

edit: The page has no scroll enhancement to my knowledge. Where do you see that, or on which device do you look at the page so I can reconstruct the problem on my end? Thanks.

It does have scroll enhancement. It scrolls faster and keeps scrolling for a while after I've stopped scrolling, "easing out". I think this line is the culprit:

    <script data-rocketsrc="/static/js/nicescroll.js" type="text/rocketscript"></script>

my bad, removed it. Thanks for pointing me to it.

Hi all, that little service came out of a larger project of mine, but I thought it could be useful to everyone.

Unlike other sites, where you can search for something, the index here is based on crawling all and everything that is posted on HN, a lot of Reddits and many many more sites. So not only based on a headline or something, the comparison is really based on content behind the links.

Happy to hear your opinion.

Wish you all a great new year and good luck in 2015!

Tom

> So not only based on a headline or something, the comparison is really based on content behind the links

Could you describe your approach in more detail?

The following sentence on your web page has three "is" words. It should have two "is" words and one "it" I believe.

   Is it safe to use? Is is finished?

thanks, fixed. What did I learn? Do not make landingpages when it's late :)

Thanks.

Interesting stuff, best of luck to you as well.

I imagine this is not in the intentions of your service as it is now, but I'm wondering if you could share some knowledge on the matter given your expertise.

If you had access to a sizeable amount of links that a group of people read what sort of bite-sized knowledge could one extract about the interests/problems/expertise of the said group? Do you believe such results would be meaningful at all?

Great questions!

Well... I'm wondering that myself a little bit too.

I'm thinking of what you can do by feeding this information to machine learning algorithms :) But you will definitely see more of that soon... To give you a few buzzwords: machine learning, clustering, nlp, sentiment analysis etc. in a scalable realtime infrastructure. Basically throwing all of that into a huge data-bowl, turning on the mixer to 11 and wait and see.

Also thinking to make my PhD based on such a project, who knows :)

I just know: it must be easy to use and I must like to use it, it has to solve my own problems, or else it ends like so many other projects out there - I guess you know what I mean.

Imagine you had access to this information, what would you want to see? Which problem would it solve? Would you eventually pay for it? How often would you use it? To how many friends would you recommend it? etc... :)

Best Tom

Thanks for your answer. The buzzwords I know, but I don't have the know-how yet :). I exactly know what you mean with the project-interest match.

Not even sure if I'm pursuing anything in the general area. I'm more trying to figure out the latter part 'Which problem would it solve? Would you eventually pay for it? How often would you use it?' because I believe it could be the backbone of a project I'm working on.

Would you be up for a chat? I don't mean to hire or exploit you, but I think there might be some overlap between what you like doing and what I'm planning to do - not sure if I can call it consulting, but perhaps I could offer something in return. I believe you can see my contact details in my profile page if you're up for it.

here is mine: thomas @ [the domain in the brackets on the top]

wwwas.it sounds interesting. Wondering if you could connect to skype and facebook chat somehow and make my links searchable :) .

Send me some info where I can reach you via skype or any other chat please.

Thanks, Tom

Nice bookmarklet! I have one quick suggestion. The font size and color on the results page make it very hard to read. Please increase size and switch from grey and light blue to black and darker blue.

Hi,

yeah, thanks for the feedback, much appreciated, as I'm definitely no web-designer. I will do that together with a pagination and will roll that out hopefully next week. As the holidays are over and I have a normal day-job and a family next to it (or vice-versa), I try to keep working on the core as much as I can and keep the design as simple as possible.

I am personally a friend of infinite page scrolling, but it seems that not everyone likes it. Any thoughts on that?

Thanks.

I'm usually againts inifite scrolling, but I think it won't hurt in the results page as it is something that you visit once, get what you want and leave.

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