Found my google reader alternative: the old reader

So I'd like to share with you my google reader alternative: theoldreader.
I've tried so far yoleo, feedly, goread and diggreader. Each of them is missing the following must have things for me:

• The "next" button. I don't like using keyboard bindings when reading feeds.
• Search through all feeds
• Social by sharing/liking news
• Exporting OPML

Additionally, theoldreader has a great (disabled by default) feature: clicking on a news will scroll to it. That is very handy if you don't want to stick your mouse clicking on the next button.

The only bad point of theoldreader is that there's an import queue, I'm currently in position 1566 (1481 after about 15 minutes). Other than that, it's perfect for my needs and resembles most of google reader.

Update: the search only looks for terms into post titles, not post contents :-(

DuckDuckGo search engine

Hello,
in this post I'd like to hint you a very nice search engine: DuckDuckGo. I've been pointed out to this by a post here on why both Google and Yahoo suck (and why Google search does more).
In older posts of mine you can find some examples on how Google search can miserably fail a search.
The main problem with the two approaches is: Google (and Bing too) sorts by popularity, Yahoo by match. So, what can happen is: Google finds something completely unrelated to what you need, Yahoo is much sensible to the keywords you put.

This DuckDuckGo search engine instead, looks up the search keywords and asks you for the meaning of the words (Yahoo phase), and then sorts it by popularity (Google phase). Especially with web 2.0 and publicity, popularity of web sites loses much more importance over the actual relationship between the meaning of the search and the web page itself.

So, as usual the conclusion is: don't use only one search engine, use multiple ones because implementation matters; don't say people "Google is your friend" because it can happen to be offensive, say instead "use your favourite search engine (YFSE)".

Google Reader Fail

Hello,
Google Reader has just wiped out my subscriptions list, which made me scream like a crazy monkey (other than cleaning up the list).Now I'm using bloglines, which looks pretty good except there's nothing like "read all items", but you must clean on each feed to see the items (any alternative to bloglines supporting this?).

But as far as I can see, I'm not the only one that lost the feeds, the difference is that I just opened the reader without any other operation.

I've also heard of MyYahoo! being a good aggregator, the only problem is that Epiphany/Webkit is broken with yahoo (no css), anybody experiencing this?

Google search wrong again

Hello,
sometimes ago I posted twice about google search having wrong results.
Now it happens again after a few months (it's like google breaks page weights like every 4-5 months).
The search is "debian dpkg list", I really expect the mailing list info page but after 3-4 pages of google search (and also bing this time) I couldn't find it. With yahoo search it's at the first position (lists.debian.org/debian-dpkg).

Like for the previous posts, using different search engines matters and matches your needs.