There are way too many stop words on Feedster.

There are waaaaaaaaaaaay too many stop words on Feedster. Wonder? 

> Done? Unfortunately? I could understand articles and some 

> prepositions, and perhaps forms of "to be" but anything else just 

> kills Feedster's usefulness to me. Here's why:

>

> I do lexical research for the dictionaries I write. Part of that 

> involves looking for examples of terms in the wild. This, by 

> necessity, depends upon exact phrase searching. I've resigned myself 

> to the fact that most search engines suck, that Google indexes only a 

> small fraction of weblogs, and that some words are destined to be stop 

> words. (The only full-text resource I know of which has no stop words 

> is Factiva.) Feedster and other blog indexers take care of some of 

> Google's shortcomings, I use a variety of search engines to make sure 

> I get a better sample of what can reasonably be called "the web" (as 

> opposed to non-web resources which have a web interface but are not 

> indexable or searchable except through their usually crappy interfaces).

>

> But because of Feedster's stop words, I also have to go to Blogdigger, 

> or PubSub, or Technorati. Each of these, like Feedster, come up short 

> in some way. If Feedster could cut the stop words to about 12, if it 

> would do real phrase searching every time (even if it means 

> wildcarding stop words, but otherwise retaining the phrase intact, if 

> it would actually allow me to see all pages of results, I might be 

> able to skip the other blog indexers.

>

> Thanks, in any case.

>

> Grant Barrett





Hi Grant,



Wow.  What an intelligent email.  Thank you.  I've taken the liberty of

forwarding it in full to our indexer guru and he and I will be

discussing it later today.



Scott

Guys, you seriously need to rewrite your instructions on claiming a feed.

> Guys, you seriously need to rewrite your instructions on claiming a feed.

>

> First of all, I don't know what claiming a feed means.

>

> Second of all, I follow your instructions literally (to my knowledge) 

> and I have no idea if the end result is successful or not.

>

> But I think your search engine is cool and useful.

>

> Right now, all I would like to do is add my picture and email to your 

> search listing whenever someone uses your search engine to access my 

> blog postings.

>

> thanks.

>

> Steve Castellano







Hi Steve,



  1. You're right.  We do.  Here's the beta docs:

     http://feedster.net/tutorials/claimfeed/

 

When I search for "Tool Orders" in Feedster, my blog doesn't come up ?

Question:

Hi there,



I am new to blogging and feedster.



I added my blog

http://ramenon.blogspot.com/atom.xml

to my feedster, some 36 hours back.



When I search "Tool Orders" in myfeedster, this blog doesn't come up. What am I doing wrong ?

Answer

Ok the problem here isn't that your blog doesn't come up, its that you simply aren't seeing it.  Your blog's feed is this:



http://ramenon.blogspot.com/atom.xml



The default sort order for Feedster is date sorted, most recent blog posts 1st.  And the problem when you search for "Tool Orders" is that there are lots of other blogs that have those terms.  So if you search for text that only you have you're more likely to find your blog. 



This search:



http://feedster.com/search.php?q=Bill+Quain&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&sort=date



shows your blog.



Scott

RSS Feeds of ONLY MP3 Content

Hi,

I primarily use rss feeds on my mp3 player (audiofeeds/podcasts). Is there a way to
refine a search to encapsulated mp3 content only? If so, and I've missed this
capability, please forgive. Otherwise, please consider this for your feature list.

Thanks


Answer:
We sort of have this and sort of don't (the don't is that there's a bug).

There's a partial implementation of this on http://feedster.tv/ and there is an
enclosures feed of only MP3 content at:

http://feedster.com/feedcache/mp3enclosures.xml

Derrick