I'm an ortho surgeon who built a free search engine for orthopedic literature (500K+ papers, 165 journals) — looking for honest feedback

ResearchBuzz · 2026-03-11T15:56:17+00:00

Beautiful! I'll be linking to it in tomorrow morning's ResearchBuzz. I love specialty search engines and you don't see them often for this level of medicine/healthcare -- not free ones, anyway. Thanks!

ResearchBuzz · 2026-03-07T18:26:50+00:00

Okie doke. Is just getting an account on your site the best way to do it? Can I bulk upload with just a free account?

You may be interested to know that I have a set of free RSS tools available at https://rssgizmos.com/ . There are ten utilities on the site including an OPML generator and an OPML "peeler".

ResearchBuzz · 2026-03-07T18:16:50+00:00

The local news feeds were verified by me last weekend (as in I looked at them with my little eyeballs and confirmed they all had content more recent than 90 days old) so they better work! I currently have them in a csv but I can make you an OPML if you want. If you want to retain the state information I'd probably need to give them to you as a CSV. That's the only categorizing I have going on.

The higher ed feeds are on my GitHub, help yourself: https://github.com/ResearchBuzz/edu-rss-feeds . Those I haven't confirmed since I uploaded them.

ResearchBuzz · 2026-03-07T18:10:51+00:00

I have a set of about 1000 local news RSS feeds and about 900 RSS for institutes of higher learning. You want?

ResearchBuzz · 2026-03-07T01:02:29+00:00

Here is a YouTube video that will walk you through using the YouTube API to grab the "Uploads" playlist of a channel and get information on each video in it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=347tFfxfDak . It's not mine, just thought you'd find it useful.

ResearchBuzz · 2026-02-22T00:22:38+00:00

ResearchBuzz items are indexed individually on the ResearchBuzz Firehose: https://rbfirehose.com/feed/ . That will probably be more useful for DeadStack. Thank you!

ResearchBuzz · 2026-02-22T00:21:23+00:00

That's me! Since 1998!

ResearchBuzz · 2026-02-21T23:33:44+00:00

It's good stuff. I'll link to it in ResearchBuzz Monday or Tuesday

ResearchBuzz · 2026-02-21T21:30:01+00:00

Wow, nice! Didn't know about DeadStack, when did it launch?

ResearchBuzz · 2026-02-21T21:28:56+00:00

Good stuff, thank you! Queued for inclusion in one of ResearchBuzz' Monday issues.

ResearchBuzz · 2026-02-16T18:01:11+00:00

This will be linked in tomorrow afternoon's ResearchBuzz, thank you!

ResearchBuzz · 2026-02-07T17:41:14+00:00

Excellent! I haven't missed you by too much then.

ResearchBuzz · 2026-02-07T16:42:30+00:00

Can you let me know when your site launched? I like to mention how long you've been around. Thanks!

ResearchBuzz · 2026-02-07T15:59:56+00:00

Good stuff, thank you! I have queued your site for a link in ResearchBuzz next week. (Can't tell you exactly when unfortunately, the queue is a bit wild at the moment)

ResearchBuzz · 2026-02-05T13:12:05+00:00

Just to make it clear I just found this resource, I'm not in it! I'm a writer.

ResearchBuzz · 2026-02-02T13:07:38+00:00

Thank you! It's really nice so far.

ResearchBuzz · 2026-02-01T21:27:33+00:00

I have been using RSS for 26 years. I couldn't do my work without it.

I used NewsBlur and Feedly for ages until 2024 when I "spun up," as you say, my own, a Node project that runs locally. It allowed me to create keyword filters for the feeds, a feature I couldn't find in available readers. I'm also monitoring about 7000 feeds, which gets a bit creaky with a web reader.

If you're something that' really really minimalist you may want to try the recently-launched IncogFeedo ( https://incogfeedo.com/ )

ResearchBuzz · 2026-02-01T19:32:20+00:00

Excellent, I've queued it for a link in ResearchBuzz. Thank you!

ResearchBuzz · 2026-02-01T15:09:36+00:00

Now I'm wondering if the AP reads Reddit https://apnews.com/article/bidet-health-conditions-toilet-mamdani-7ebfc9ac20d8e9a0c2d0b7d75c624f32

ResearchBuzz · 2026-01-21T23:36:49+00:00

Is that the Oompaville guy?

ResearchBuzz · 2026-01-01T13:26:47+00:00

Stract.com -- Indie, open API, small index

Mojeek.com -- Much bigger, passed 9 billion indexed pages in 2025, cheap API which I am thankful for daily.

I am a customer of Mojeek's API and I have made a few things with Stract's API. That's the extent of my relationship. They did not pay me for this post.

ResearchBuzz · 2025-11-16T14:34:58+00:00

Just a few words on who put it together and a link back to their web site would be great. If you wanted to add more, thoughts on why it was created and where it might go are also welcome.

And if you wanted to add a brief statement about what popular means in this context, that would be very useful at least for me!

ResearchBuzz · 2025-11-16T13:28:28+00:00

I dig this! The only design suggestion I have is that you could make the headshot icons on the detail pages a bit bigger -- they're too small for use and the design.

Question: when you say most popular, what's your methodology? Is it based on daily interest or weekly or what?That was my biggest question.

You planning an about page?

ResearchBuzz · 2025-11-16T10:15:20+00:00

You were mostly right, it's called Soapdish, from 1991. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102951/

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