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by pencilcode 5527 days ago
ideally it would skip the rss feed. most static sites are just plain html files, they have no rss feeds.
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silverlight 5527 days ago
Agreed. Right now this is technically "Search for static BLOG sites". If you had the ability to scan simple HTML files as well, it could work for any HTML site, even if it weren't a blog site (or another site type that has a time-ordered list of posts in an RSS feed).
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jkreeftmeijer 5527 days ago
We're definitely looking into this and hope to find a clean solution soon. We started by indexing RSS since it was what we needed and since it was _way_ simpler to implement for a first version. Stay tuned! :)
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_pdeschen 5526 days ago
Given a sitemap.xml, that could be used to index static site without the need for a feed.

http://www.sitemaps.org/

Since sitemap is a /standard/ (sic!) document hence no need to reimplement the wheel for true static sites.

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