Technorati hacks: AND, NOT
Now that Technorati have enabled “OR” in search queries, what about using AND, or NOT.
Here’s an idea I haven’t tried out yet:
AND example
Search query: cats AND dogs
Do a search on Technorati for “cats”
Then take the feed (watchlist) and run it through Feed Digest.
Now filter this feed to only return results that have the term: dogs, by typing in “dogs”
So now you have a done a refined search.
(results will now show items with “cats”, only if the term “dogs” appears…if I’m correct)
Now go back to Technorati and search for “dogs”
Then run this through Feed Digest, and filter for the term: “cats”
(results will now show items with “dogs”, only if the term “cats” appears…if I’m correct)
Now you have 2 refined searches (2 new feeds)
Once again in Feed Digest, splice these 2 feeds…and there you have it, a hack for using AND in Technorati search.
…correct me if I’m wrong with this as it’s Friday evening, and I’m rushing this post to not miss my train.
NOT example
I just realised Feed Digest is lacking a filter out option, but another handy tool FeedShake, can filter out terms, this enables to use the NOT operator
So if you do a search for “cats” in Technorati, then put the feed in FeedShake and filter out the term “dogs”…you’ve created this search query: cats NOT dogs
[ADDED 22/08/05: see comment below]
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Feed Digest supports negative terms. Just put a minus sign before the particular word, and entries with that word are stripped out. Of course, there must be at least one positive/other term. It’s like Google.
Comment by Peter Cooper — August 19, 2005 @ 6:53 pm
I forgot to add that Technorati does forced phrasing of multiple search terms, eliminating the use of AND
see this post
…although on another look this seems not to be case anymore!
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