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They are to a degree. We just remove remove the top million most popular sites. So, searching for "social network" would normally yield Facebook.com, but with MillionShort you discover a social network that that didn't make it past the noise.

A few of the suggestions included the ability to set include/exclude sites which I think we'll add.

Will add that feature. Thx

I guess the thought would that graduated to some level of critical mass. Sort of like a kickstart program for sites.

We're surprising ourselves too.

Think of this as more of a discovery engine. And predictability takes the fun out of discovery.

Popularity I think is important. But not at the expense of relevance. It's not a easy nut to crack.

Glad that code is being put to good.

You are right, but they won't allow the list to be 1 million sites long. You are talking 15 megs of data per data in plain text per request.

But I like the idea of being able for users to, via a setting perhaps, add their own list of deny/include sites.

Thx for the comment.

That was exactly the goal. In our opinion the "un-findable" as you put it represents a gold mine of information yet to be absorbed and enjoyed.

Maybe we can set up a Webmaster tools sort of submission process for inclusion.

The positive feedback is awesome.. Thx

Your're right. We strip www from the domains. We need a better function to rip out the domain from a URL. Just haven't had time to cook one up yet.

merriam-webster.com redirects to m-w.com - looking into the others.. Sometimes if a site has header redirects it gets lost in the filters. Thx for pointing this out.

Right now the filtering is not 100% working for non .com, .net, .org, .co.uk domains. So, .gov.au isn't being properly filtered yet. Soon.

Good catch. Will fix. Thx

Wow.. awesome comliment..

Randomization is a good idea. Give everyone a fair change kind of thing maybe? reply

How would you like to see this work?

Correct. Top million sites.

Good feedback. Right now the filtering is not 100% working for non .com, .net, .org, .co.uk domains. Still working on it.

That's awesome. Maybe we're on to something..

We're simply removing the top million (or what you select) sites. The results can be the same - it just means that that site isn't in the list of top one million sites on the web.

Good point. We caught that UI issue, but somehow that crept back in.

ical on the whiteboard. Will add others suggestions.

Great idea. Added to whiteboard. It's been a Looong time since I played D&D - great memories. reply

Feedback would be great.

First (Unofficial) Google+ Live Post Stream based on Google+ users that have greater than 500 followers and frequently share - Keywords filter is BETA - so you might have to wait up to 5 minutes before you see Steve Jobs related posts. Leave it running for a bit and enjoy what people have to share on Google+.

Feedback or feature requests would be awesome.

We've now indexed over 4.4 million Google+ profiles. Some interesting results. We've been busy.