BoardReader Blog

After number of weeks of hard work and we’re now ready to show results to the public. BoardReader is now back online powered by extremely fast search technology and indexing even more forums than ever.

We also created this blog to inform you about BoardReader happenings - share our development process talk about new cool features and answer some questions which you might have. Even though we’ve done a lot already more features are to come.

Now lets talk about couple of cool features we have working already:

Search

Lets look at BoardReader.COM search results for example for PS3. First thing I should note we’ve designed search results to be very easy to link to from the applications. So if you want to find Keyword you can simply http://boardreader.com/s/Keyword URL to get basic search results. Next you could notice advanced search which offers search functionality if you need something beyond simple keyword search.

We also provided you with quick links to change a way how results are sorted - Relevance or Freshness, Ability to restrict search to only recent posts and to limit your search to some particular language. Language detection is not perfect yet but already quite helpful.

To help you to formulate your query we’ve designed “refine results” bar which helps you to make your search more specific by looking at most frequently used search phrases with this keyword.

At the left side you can see the graph which shows number of documents matched by search query per day for last month. It is very cool to watch for hot terms.

Under the graph you can see forums which match to the search phrase so you can jump to the forum or focus your search on it by clicking play button.

Look at main search results. You can see sometimes they would be tabbed - this way we show result matches are from the same thread, similar as Google would do for sites from same web site.

For each of the posts we also provide information from which site this post comes from and which forum and how many posts are in the thread. So you can jump to such site or forum or focus search on them by pressing play button.

Links

If you own web site you might be interested how people are linking to it from forums. It is easy to do by entering URL or domain name into the search box and Boardreader will automatically detect it is resource and search for links pointing to it. Here is example. Again it is very simple to link to such search results so you can add ability to track links from forums to any page or web site.

Domain Profile

Looking for more aggregate info about how your site is being linked ? Check Domain Profile This page will show you which forum sites are linking to domain and what are most frequent target pages. If domain would have some indexed forums you would also see same information about outgoing links - which domains and pages get the largest number of outgoing links.

YouTube

YouTube is hot so we’ve created YouTube movie rating just for fun. You can see it from front page or see full version. We rank movies by amount of distinct sites linking to the same movie.

Enjoy and we’ll keep you posted.

P.S. If your forums or your favorite forums are not yet indexed we encourage you to add them to make BoardReader even better.