geraldbaeck

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   by geraldbaeck 13y ago

   Of course you are right, with such data you could build something like alexa. We are aware that this data is currently a tiny subset of the web and does not represent much, but it has potential if it grows. Since we do not consider this dat
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   by geraldbaeck 13y ago

   Yes, we will add metadata in the next dump, but currently the time_spent is all that matters. Our plans are to add categories, the language and rough information about the content type (video, image, etc). Gerald, CTO Blippex
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   by geraldbaeck 13y ago

   Nice idea I think we should do that. Gerald, CTO blippex
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   by geraldbaeck 13y ago

   We have some rate limits at our API in place, but of course it not that difficult to change an IP-address. But most important we wrote some algorithms which checks submitted URLs and domains for suspicious or accelerating behaviour. If that
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   by geraldbaeck 13y ago

   Differentiating the quality of a dwell would be nice, but that would mean to track search trails of our users, which is too much of a privacy issue. But we are thinking about semantically evaluating the DwellRank. For example a useful dwell
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   by geraldbaeck 13y ago

   Thanks. Yes we will implement a Firefox search engine addon soon.
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   by geraldbaeck 13y ago

   I don't think that those "generic" term are the main advantage of Blippex. But if you search for example for "NSA" on Blippex ( https://www.blippex.org/?q=NSA ), we are assuming that you will get thos
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   by geraldbaeck 13y ago

   Thanks, that is a very interesting input. We should think about running additional semantic analysis and relate them to the time spent on sites. We are very sure that our algorithm needs a lot of fine tuning and this could be a very importa
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   by geraldbaeck 13y ago

   Could you please send me a link to the header modifying addon. So I can fix that. gb@blippex.org
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    by geraldbaeck 13y ago

    We are counting the per unique URL, which is currently not a big advantage for the popular sites, because they are hosting so many URLs. There no domain based factor in it right now. -Gerald Disclosure: I am the CTO of archify/Blippex
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    by geraldbaeck 13y ago

    I think you guesses are absolutely right. We never intended to compete against other engines in the field of "Answers". I think you will always get a better result for ""Population of America" if you search for ai a
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    by geraldbaeck 13y ago

    Yes that could be a potential issue, expecially if you want to keep the data of the submitters as anonymous as possible. We are monitoring this closely, but honestly we don't have a single hammer solution against spam as always it need
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    by geraldbaeck 14y ago

    doesnt work with usernames only with pages like cocacolazero
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    Ask HN: How to check where are your Facebook friends from.

    2 points by geraldbaeck 14y ago|2 comments
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    by geraldbaeck 14y ago

    how are they doing that?
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    by geraldbaeck 16y ago

    Dropbox No Nees for USB drives anymore Google Docs easy collaboration within our startup and of course Twitter
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    by geraldbaeck 16y ago

    The OS does not matter, because almost everything is running in my browser.
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    by geraldbaeck 16y ago

    We decided to go for YC first and if they don't take us we will apply at other incubators.