An OpenOrb instance is configured with a list of feeds to search - what was once called a blogroll - and indexes this list periodically. In this way, OpenOrb provides a window into the content a specific person or community cares about, with the benefit of making this content searchable and therefore more accessible. OpenOrb is designed to be the opposite of Google and other black box, monolithic search engines - it's open source, configurable, personal, and predictable.
OpenOrb uses an extremely simple search engine, mostly adapted from Alex Molas's superb 'search engine in 80 lines of Python', which uses BM25 and doesn't handle wildcards, boolean operators, or stemming/lemmatization (yet). I might add some of these features in the future, but I wrote OpenOrb in a single day so I'm keeping it simple for now!
The success of a search on OpenOrb suffers from the same limitations as RSS in general - people and software have different, and sometimes weird, opinions on how to present structured data. If a feed doesn't include full post content (which it should!), then OpenOrb won't be able to index it. If a feed has a cut-off limit for how many posts are in it, OpenOrb will only know about the ones that it had time to save. Embrace the limitations of the messy open web, and tell your friends to stop deleting posts from their feeds.
You are viewing a humanly curated list of fine personal & independent blogs that are updated regularly. No algorithms ever!
A site where somebody aggregates links to personal and weird little sites, like we all remember in the early days.
Curlie strives to be the largest human-edited directory of the Web. It is run by volunteer editors. Join today to add to our collection or create your own! We started as the Open Directory Project (ODP), later became DMOZ, and In 2017, we launched Curlie to continue the 100% free directory. There is no cost to submit a site to the directory or use the directory's data. Curlie provides the means for the community to identify and categorize the best content on the web.
Spyglass is a search platform that lives on your device, indexing what you want, exposing it to you in a super simple and fast interface. Warning: Spyglass is very much in its early stages, but it’s in a place where it's functional and can be used to replace basic searches.
Spyglass is a solution to address the following common issues when searching the web.
- Do you add terms such as "reddit" or "wiki" to your searches to narrow it down?
- Do you skip over a full page of ads before getting to your actual search results?
- Do you scroll past dozens of SEO spam pages to find the recipe/review/blog post you were looking for?
- Do you get frustrated with overzealous autocorrect on your search terms?
mnamer (media renamer) is an intelligent and highly configurable media organization utility. It parses media filenames for metadata, searches the web to fill in the blanks, and then renames and moves them.
A curated list of the most popular libraries and applications for many different languages and fields.
The Living Library seeks to provide actionable knowledge on governance innovation. We identify for our core audience the “signal in the noise” by curating research, best practices, points of view, new tools, and developments. Spans topic areas from artificial intelligence, open data, and blockchain, to citizen science, open innovation, and civic technology. The platform has an international purview, with insights drawn from across the globe and relevant to a diversity of sectors. Research-based knowledge offerings. Appears to have some up-to-date data archived in some contexts.