Wine Blog Search
Besides aggregating the best that the web has to offer on wine related content and tasting notes, Scrugy is also a state-of-the-art search engine. But did you know that Scrugy allows you to limit your search to just wine blogs? To do a blog search, enter a search phrase in the search box at the top of any Scrugy page, click “double down arrow” to display the “search within” drop-down, select “just wine related blogs”, and then “Search”.
Since I’m drinking a Concannon Petite Sirah this evening, a search for blogs mentioning this wine would look like the following screen shot.
Once I click the “Search” button, Scrugy displays the results ordered by relevance. But what if I want the results ordered by the most recent blog post? No problem. Scrugy allows you to order results by relevance or by the newest or oldest post date.
Why risk your wine searches to any other site? Scrugy delivers the results you’re looking for the way you want them.
Suggestions? Comments? Let us know.
March 9th, 2007 at 12:19 am
hi James - nice chatting with you earlier. I like this, eliminates a lot of chaff - but how about an RSS feed of new search results a la google blog search? thanks!
March 9th, 2007 at 8:32 am
You know, I was thinking about that exact thing during the chat and was trying to get to that point with my question (towards the end, if you were still online).
Right now on Scrugy you can get an RSS feed of web searches. The way you do this is by searching for something from “any wine related site” (first option in drop-down shown above). In the upper right corner of the search results is an “XML” badge/image that provides an RSS feed of the search results for your search. The only problem with this option, though, is that it returns hits to blog posts and any other wine site that Scrugy has indexed.
What I need to do is provide the same “XML” option for the other search types, such as the blog search. Shouldn’t be too hard to add. But do you think doing a search to get the feed you want is too hard. It’s never seemed very intuitive to me. What about a “build your own RSS feed” where you were asked a series of questions about what you were interested in and Scrugy would build the query for you behind the scenes?
Anyway, besides the search feeds, you can also get an aggregated feed of all your subscriptions on Scrugy. This feed will include the latest posts from all of your favorite blogs. To do this you have to sign up with Scrugy and add some feeds to your My Scrugy page. On your My Scrugy page is a “Subscribe” link that will let you add the feed to several popular readers or get the raw RSS link.
Thanks for the feedback, eljefe!
James
March 19th, 2007 at 9:23 am
[…] Say your favorite wine region is Paso Robles and you’d like to build an RSS feed that provides the latest wine blog posts mentioning the area. The first thing you’d need to do is submit a blog search on Scrugy for “paso robles”. To do this just type “paso robles” (in this case include the quotes so Scrugy treats it as a phrase–this will improve the accuracy of the results), select “just wine related blogs” from the search type drop-down, and click “Search”. The search results will show you all blog posts with the phrase “paso robles”. Now since you want the feed to always show you the latest blog posts, sort the results by newest to oldest by clicking on the “Newest” link (just above the first search result). Great, now you’ve got the results the way you want them. The last step is to grab the RSS feed for the search so you can add it to your favorite RSS reader. This is where the new feature comes in. You will notice a small orange “XML” image along the upper right side of the search results page. This link will provide the very same search results of your search but in RSS format. Right-click to copy the link to your computer’s clipboard so you can paste into your favorite reader. […]