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by dewey 4371 days ago
I like it, are you going to build any features on top of that? Top lists, average ratings, trending albums, anything to differentiate the results from a simple google search?

Right now it doesn't really offer anything over just typing "albumname + pitchfork review" in my browser bar which also has the advantage that Google is ignoring small typos ("kayne west" will result in "Your search yielded no results, try again!" while it'll ignore it if I'm using another search engine, now sure if it's the same thing with small errors like a missing accent).

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Yes! I do want to keep working on this. I would like to build a small user base and get input on what could feature should be worked on next.

I have in mind user generated and share-able lists, and trending albums is also a very reasonable possibility. Also, the searches do not offer too many input parameters to the search so that is something I would like to fix.

Since you've posted that, I've changed how the search is done and it should be a lot more responsive now. I have access to Pitchfork's autocomplete API so I could use that to work around the problem possibly. Do you have any ideas about this?

Thank you for the thoughtful input.