I am a keen follower on the IT startups. I like to read about them and have some critical thoughts as a hobby.
On my RSS feed reader, I have subscribed many startup news blogs such as Techcrunch, Mashable, Gigaom, Ycombinator News , Startupping forum and many others too long to list.
After subscribing to so many of these feeds, sometimes it’s pretty hard to search back a discussion or news thread regarding a particular startup from a while back. I found that using the general Google search engine is not an ideal solution, since it also shows search results which are not from the startup-focused websites I have read from.
Therefore I have created a startup-focused search engine powered by Google Custom Search. I have exported my RSS feed list from Google Reader and added the relevant feeds’ mother blogs into this customized search engine.
Other than the websites I have listed above, I have also added a lot of other blogs focusing on startup news, but also personal blogs which (potential) entrepreneurs would mostly be very interested in. Some examples are:
Personal blogs
Startup blogs
Venture Capital blogs
And a lot more of others sites were added - at the moment 82 and counting…
I have also created a few “labels” such as “News”, “Venture capitals”, “Forums for startuppers” and “Reviews” which can be used to refine your searches towards your desired knowledge areas on the search result page.
Certainly this search engine is still a work in progress. If you have any suggestions or feedback for me to tweak this search engine better for you, feel free to leave a comment under this blog post.
So, give it a try here 
2 Comments
1 August, 2007 at 2:31 am
Sunny - you might want to add my blog, http://47hats.com, to your list. Also, you might want to have a look at Google Blog Search and feed that into your custom searches!
2 August, 2007 at 2:16 am
Hi Bob, thanks for dropping by. I have added your blog into the search engine. I’ll think about how to implement your Google Blog Search suggestion. Cheers!
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