Show HN: Bubblehunt – curated web search

by vkorsunov • 10 years ago

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vkorsunov12• 10 years ago

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)

petra• 10 years ago

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.

vkorsunov12• 10 years ago

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)

brudgers• 10 years ago

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.

imron• 10 years ago

feedback please

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

vkorsunov12• 10 years ago

Thank you! We'll fix that

effie• 10 years ago

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.

vkorsunov12• 10 years ago

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)

kwhitefoot2• 10 years ago

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

vkorsunov12• 10 years ago

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

kwhitefoot2• 10 years ago

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.

vkorsunov12• 10 years ago

I completely agree) The work is still very much)

techaddict009• 10 years ago

What is difference between this and google search?

ry_ry• 10 years ago

bubblesearch uses a bubblesort on the index.

not really. or at least i hope not.

vkorsunov12• 10 years ago

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.

jarcane• 10 years ago

Choose best results by clicking upvote button

The upvote button does not seem to appear on Firefox.

6502nerdface• 10 years ago

Nor in Chrome on iOS.

vkorsunov12• 10 years ago

Thank you! We will fix it)

pkd• 10 years ago

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.

vkorsunov12• 10 years ago

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)

andreygrehov• 10 years ago

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

vkorsunov12• 10 years ago

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)

feed16• 10 years ago

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?

vkorsunov12• 10 years ago

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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