Omgili: New Search Engine for Web Discussion Forums

September 25, 2006 10:59 AM

Web discussion forums have some fantastic content. There is an excellent rank-ordered, categorized index of many of them, but the attempts to create a search engine for these forums, akin to that which already exists for the newsgroups, have generally failed. Let's wish Omgili some luck then. Maybe even do so in their forum.
posted by shivohum (12 comments total)

meta.
posted by Flashman at 11:08 AM on September 25, 2006

meta filter?
posted by spock at 11:30 AM on September 25, 2006

Bwahaha. Head-fi, land of "double blind free" audiophile lunacy.

I used to think it was pretty cool too.
posted by darukaru at 11:33 AM on September 25, 2006

Ponies belong in MetaTalk.
posted by Smart Dalek at 11:47 AM on September 25, 2006

Ars Technica OpenForum
posted by thylacine at 11:48 AM on September 25, 2006

darukaru: I find your midrange doesn't shimmer and breathe.
posted by basicchannel at 12:01 PM on September 25, 2006

A much-belated answer to my AskMe question of a year ago. Very cool. Thanks!
posted by Saucy Intruder at 12:37 PM on September 25, 2006

Wow the "rank-ordered, categorized index" index link has one of the most annoying advertisement's I've ever seen. It loads on the bottom of the page, so you can't see it, and produces this obnoxious buzzing noise. I thought that my sound card had a short or something.
posted by delmoi at 2:45 PM on September 25, 2006

The Something Awful Forums are so content rich, you almost don't need the internet at large when you have a membership. I shit thee not.
posted by stenseng at 4:33 PM on September 25, 2006

The Something Awful Forums are so content rich, you almost don't need the internet at large when you have a membership.

That was true before they took all the porn and MP3 downloads away.

So I hear.
posted by chrismear at 8:33 AM on September 26, 2006

if someone could create a google from message boards, that would answer my prayers.
posted by juliarothbort at 2:19 PM on September 26, 2006

if someone could create a google from message boards, that would answer my prayers.


Uh... that's exactly what Omgili, my main link, is supposed to be trying to be!
posted by shivohum at 3:22 PM on September 26, 2006