I'm doing a social search engine. Won't be big and professional like Google. This has been brewing for a while, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in it :)

Are there any other social search engines that draw from multiple sources? I know there are services like mention.com, but I wanted something where you do not have to sign up and can just search right away.

Love how clean this is. Feature request: Quora mentions! At that point, I'd probably want to be able to sort by medium.

I would add Quora if I had access to their data. They have no public API. Anybody from Quora listening?

Neat! Now you just have to add voting.... :)

Sidebar: I did something similar many years ago. I was doing a hacker news book site (books hackers talk about). I wanted to include every time the book was talked about, but I didn't want to run code or update stuff. The entire site was static.

I found out you can determine the "buzz" for something just using Google Search and some code. Check out this page: http://www.hn-books.com/Books/Slaughterhouse-Five.htm#the_bu...

This allowed me to write reviews, do interviews, and also present whatever folks were saying about a book -- without having to write server code or even maintain a server.

Love to see how this continues to develop. Lots of potential here.

Nice. I'd like to use regexp in the search, or some other kind of advanced parameters. For example, I searched for "latex" and got no results from the document preparation system LaTeX.

There is already a bit of advanced syntax. Any use of quotation marks will enable it. For example, is you search for...

    latex "donald knuth"

That will search for any comment that has latex anywhere in the text and donald and knuth next to each other.

So you could trigger the advanced syntax by putting latex in quotes and search for any commment that contains latex and text anywhere in the comment:

    "latex" text

Shameless plug (and relevant to the topic), I run the site http://redditcommentsearch.com which allows searching through the comments of a particular user on reddit.

I created this site because I often needed to search through my own comment history, to find old debates that I want to revisit.

This is useful, thanks.

https://karmalytics.co/ is somewhat similar.

Yup except with keyword tracking.

Found this comment b/c I have an alert set up for "karmalytics"

It's "cogwheel", and your dong is backward -- very 4chan, that.

(I'd have something more substantive to say, only the "cogweels" seem to be grinding teeth off one another at the moment, so there's not much I can do.)

Thanks, fixed the wheels. If you get the wheels message, just reload the page.

I'm a bit hesitant to throw all that on the screen as it would clutter the interface. Maybe display it on mouseover?

I really appreciate the sentiment of this comment. It shows that whatever does end up making it to the screen should be pretty well thought out.

hey, i made something like that! http://stats.timgallant.us/