Show HN: CrowdView – Discussions Search Engine (stop adding “Reddit” on Google) https://ift.tt/U8mZpHa

Show HN: CrowdView – Discussions Search Engine (stop adding “Reddit” on Google) I built a quick prototype for my YC application and figured I'd share it with the HN community as well. CrowdView is a search engine for discussion sites (forums, message boards, Discord, and Twitter for now). Like many of you, I find Google results to be full of SEO spam and have resorted to adding "site:reddit.com" or "site:news.ycombinator.com" to all my queries (since 2015!). Otherwise, it's really hard to figure out "what does a genuine, real life human think about this thing?". But limiting my results to just Reddit isn't ideal because so much great content exists elsewhere. Lots of great information and conversations have moved to Discord, and niche forums are still alive on the web! But it's impossible to find these places because they rank so poorly on Google. So I built a search engine across a curated list of these (there's about 3000+ forums, message boards, and discords so far), making sure to remove any kind of SEO junk (blog spam, listicles, etc). Please try it out and share any feedback! (and bear with it, the results can be slow at times) https://ift.tt/2kiW4m3 November 2, 2022 at 06:55AM