blog [mike atlas]

I was wondering if there is a way to search across community memories. I read several communities (nameley Northeastern’s and b0st0n’s) who do their best to archive and categorize great posts, but finding entries within the memories is very difficult.

There doesn’t seem to be anything out there currently that supports searching across memories. Livejournal appears to be mildly bot-friendly if you are not too taxing on their resources. Perhaps I could develop a tool of my own to search across a community’s memories for answers (via raw page crawling and scraping?) They do provide RSS and Atom feeds but that’s just not easily searchable (within post content as well).

Perhaps I’ll undertake this project soon and leave OpenTournament on the backburner. I’ve been playing way to much CS:S these days and I should be taking on these cool development projects ideas instead.

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