Indeed, it's explicitly for programming only (for now).
> Even 'javascript reverse string', which I expected some docs or stack overflow pages seems to give me a HN thread,
Next up is indexing language documentation. At this point I'm relying heavily on Q&A and community sites since they have their own built in quality rankings.
> Is MDN, MDSN, more dev docs documentation on the roadmap?
Most definitely. Feel free to dump a list of urls of your favorite doc sites. I'm building a whitelist now.
> Do you have anything in place to detect garbage, substenceless articles like which has started popping up on Google?
My strategy is to not index spam in the first place. That's why I started by extracting links from with community sites that have their own moderation in place. The next step is to whitelist high quality sites. That is potentially a huge list to maintain, which is why I'm am narrowly focused on software development.
>At this point I'm relying heavily on Q&A and community sites since they have their own built in quality rankings. //
How are you using the "built in quality rankings", could you give some examples?
On Reddit, say, except in a few groups like AskHistorians you can still get very high ranking for a meme post and very low ranking for a list that has high informational value. StackOverflow is extraordinarily prone to killing off reasonably good contributions and giving very high ranking to out of date answers (the latter is the biggest problem with SO sites at present IMO).
I use this documentation aggregator/search in the browser to access most language docs. It might serve as a whitelist starting point! https://devdocs.io/
Indeed, it's explicitly for programming only (for now).
> Even 'javascript reverse string', which I expected some docs or stack overflow pages seems to give me a HN thread,
Next up is indexing language documentation. At this point I'm relying heavily on Q&A and community sites since they have their own built in quality rankings.
> Is MDN, MDSN, more dev docs documentation on the roadmap?
Most definitely. Feel free to dump a list of urls of your favorite doc sites. I'm building a whitelist now.
> Do you have anything in place to detect garbage, substenceless articles like which has started popping up on Google?
My strategy is to not index spam in the first place. That's why I started by extracting links from with community sites that have their own moderation in place. The next step is to whitelist high quality sites. That is potentially a huge list to maintain, which is why I'm am narrowly focused on software development.
Everything old is new again...