tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88875142011-09-05T11:40:28.787-04:00This blog site is designed to answer questions about Feedster emailed to feedstersupport @ feedster.com. Derrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04585429729161203552noreply@blogger.comBlogger41100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887514.post-1099340320723559962004-11-01T15:13:00.000-05:002004-11-01T15:18:40.723-05:00<pre><span style="color:#800000;">There are waaaaaaaaaaaay too many stop words on Feedster. Wonder? </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> Done? Unfortunately? I could understand articles and some </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> prepositions, and perhaps forms of "to be" but anything else just </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> kills Feedster's usefulness to me. Here's why:</span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">></span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> I do lexical research for the dictionaries I write. Part of that </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> involves looking for examples of terms in the wild. This, by </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> necessity, depends upon exact phrase searching. I've resigned myself </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> to the fact that most search engines suck, that Google indexes only a </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> small fraction of weblogs, and that some words are destined to be stop </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> words. (The only full-text resource I know of which has no stop words </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> is Factiva.) Feedster and other blog indexers take care of some of </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> Google's shortcomings, I use a variety of search engines to make sure </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> I get a better sample of what can reasonably be called "the web" (as </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> opposed to non-web resources which have a web interface but are not </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> indexable or searchable except through their usually crappy interfaces).</span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">></span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> But because of Feedster's stop words, I also have to go to Blogdigger, </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> or PubSub, or Technorati. Each of these, like Feedster, come up short </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> in some way. If Feedster could cut the stop words to about 12, if it </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> would do real phrase searching every time (even if it means </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> wildcarding stop words, but otherwise retaining the phrase intact, if </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> it would actually allow me to see all pages of results, I might be </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> able to skip the other blog indexers.</span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">></span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> Thanks, in any case.</span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">></span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> Grant Barrett <br /> <br /> <br /></span>Hi Grant, <br /> <br />Wow. What an intelligent email. Thank you. I've taken the liberty of <br />forwarding it in full to our indexer guru and he and I will be <br />discussing it later today. <br /> <br />Scott <br /></pre> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8887514-109934032072355996?l=feedstersupport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Derrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04585429729161203552noreply@blogger.com28tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887514.post-1099332577221529342004-11-01T11:21:00.000-05:002004-11-01T13:09:37.223-05:00<pre><span style="color:#800000;">> Guys, you seriously need to rewrite your instructions on claiming a feed.</span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">></span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> First of all, I don't know what claiming a feed means.</span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">></span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> Second of all, I follow your instructions literally (to my knowledge) </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> and I have no idea if the end result is successful or not.</span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">></span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> But I think your search engine is cool and useful.</span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">></span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> Right now, all I would like to do is add my picture and email to your </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> search listing whenever someone uses your search engine to access my </span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> blog postings.</span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">></span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> thanks.</span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">></span> <br /><span style="color:#800000;">> Steve Castellano <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /></span>Hi Steve, <br /> <br /> 1. You're right. We do. Here's the beta docs: <br /> <a href="http://feedster.net/tutorials/claimfeed/" target="_blank">http://feedster.net/tutorials/claimfeed/</a> <br /> <br /></pre> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8887514-109933257722152934?l=feedstersupport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Derrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04585429729161203552noreply@blogger.com81tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887514.post-1099051803455895162004-10-29T08:05:00.000-04:002004-10-29T08:10:03.456-04:00 <div class="moz-text-plain" wrap="true" quote="true" style="font-family: -moz-fixed; font-size: 13px;" lang="x-western"> <div style="text-align: center;">Question: <br /></div> <pre wrap="">Hi there, <br /> <br />I am new to blogging and feedster. <br /> <br />I added my blog <br /><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ramenon.blogspot.com/atom.xml">http://ramenon.blogspot.com/atom.xml</a> <br />to my feedster, some 36 hours back. <br /> <br />When I search "Tool Orders" in myfeedster, this blog doesn't come up. What am I doing wrong ? <br /> <br /></pre> <div style="text-align: center;">Answer <br /><div style="text-align: left;"> <br /></div> </div> <pre wrap="">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: <br /> <br /><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://ramenon.blogspot.com/atom.xml">http://ramenon.blogspot.com/atom.xml</a> <br /> <br />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. <br /> <br />This search: <br /> <br />http://feedster.com/search.php?q=Bill+Quain&hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;sort=date <br /> <br />shows your blog. <br /> <br />Scott <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /></pre> <pre wrap=""> <br /></pre> </div> <div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8887514-109905180345589516?l=feedstersupport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>J. Scott Johnson / Feedsterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13497713017086894404noreply@blogger.com81tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8887514.post-1098813318797840152004-10-26T13:50:00.000-04:002004-10-26T14:08:24.790-04:00Hi, <br /> <br />I primarily use rss feeds on my mp3 player (audiofeeds/podcasts). Is there a way to <br />refine a search to encapsulated mp3 content only? If so, and I've missed this <br />capability, please forgive. Otherwise, please consider this for your feature list. <br /> <br />Thanks <br /> <br /> <br />Answer: <br />We sort of have this and sort of don't (the don't is that there's a bug). <br /> <br />There's a partial implementation of this on <a href="http://feedster.tv/">http://feedster.tv/</a> and there is an <br />enclosures feed of only MP3 content at: <br /> <br /><a href="http://feedster.com/feedcache/mp3enclosures.xml">http://feedster.com/feedcache/mp3enclosures.xml</a> <br /> <br />Derrick <br /><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/8887514-109881331879784015?l=feedstersupport.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Derrickhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04585429729161203552noreply@blogger.com6