> But I don't feel like manual curation by one person is easily compatible with search engine.
I see the manual curation as more of a temporary measure in the beginning. There are various ways blog detection can be automated and scaled, but manual curation for now gives me a better understanding of the data, and ensures I don't run into random edge cases.
> Because after trying a few search "getting a job in vc", "best computer chair", "learning erlang" I'm not confident this answer better results than Google.
Right now it's more useful for very broad queries like "inflation" or "covid". The index is pretty small at the moment, but the more posts that get added to the index, the more specific queries we'll be able to find good results for.
> You've got a content size problem as you are manually curating, and this will lead to people not use your search as a default, and probably not use it as a search engine, but instead as a discovery system.
That's actually what I want! This is not a search engine to replace Google, it's a discovery tool for blog posts.
Thanks for all the feedback here, and will definitely check out the newsletter.
I see the manual curation as more of a temporary measure in the beginning. There are various ways blog detection can be automated and scaled, but manual curation for now gives me a better understanding of the data, and ensures I don't run into random edge cases.
> Because after trying a few search "getting a job in vc", "best computer chair", "learning erlang" I'm not confident this answer better results than Google.
Right now it's more useful for very broad queries like "inflation" or "covid". The index is pretty small at the moment, but the more posts that get added to the index, the more specific queries we'll be able to find good results for.
> You've got a content size problem as you are manually curating, and this will lead to people not use your search as a default, and probably not use it as a search engine, but instead as a discovery system.
That's actually what I want! This is not a search engine to replace Google, it's a discovery tool for blog posts.
Thanks for all the feedback here, and will definitely check out the newsletter.