Today I was looking a good veggie fried rice recipe. The usual delimma I face when searching the web for a recipe is that I never get the result I want. Inevitably google returns some crappy commercial site like foodtv.com or about.com or something becuase loads of people link to them. Unfortuantely, when it comes to recipes the stuff they serve up is uninspired.
What I really want is a veggie fried rice recipe from one of those artsy little food blogs like "everybody likes sandwiches" or "eggs on sunday". But how to find the artsy food blog links among all the commercial noise on google? Technology will have a solution, right? Yes. The solution is a Google Custom Search Engine. Give google a list of urls and it will let you search them exclusively.
Here is my custom food blog search:
It covers about 150 artsy little food blogs. Where did I get the URL's? I wrote a simple little ruby script to scrape urls out of HTML. While I was at it I made another search engine I thought would be useful. It is a search of every blog listed on blogs.thoughtworks.com. Here is the widget if you are interested:
Incidentially, here is the fried rice recipe that I ended up with. You gotta love the not eating out in new york blog.
2 comments:
What a great idea. I will definitely use the food blog custom search. Thanks!
You do know about Food Blog Search, right?
:-)
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