This instance of OpenOrb is curated by Rodrigo Ghedin.
Diretório/buscador de blogs pessoais em pt_BR atualizado em tempo real.
OpenOrb is a curated search engine for Atom and RSS feeds.
An OpenOrb instance is configured with a list of feeds to search - what was once called a blogroll - and indexes this list periodically. In this way, OpenOrb provides a window into the content a specific person or community cares about, with the benefit of making this content searchable and therefore more accessible. OpenOrb is designed to be the opposite of Google and other black box, monolithic search engines - it's open source, configurable, personal, and predictable.
OpenOrb uses an extremely simple search engine, mostly adapted from Alex Molas's superb 'search engine in 80 lines of Python', which uses BM25 and doesn't handle wildcards, boolean operators, or stemming/lemmatization (yet). I might add some of these features in the future, but I wrote OpenOrb in a single day so I'm keeping it simple for now!
The success of a search on OpenOrb suffers from the same limitations as RSS in general - people and software have different, and sometimes weird, opinions on how to present structured data. If a feed doesn't include full post content (which it should!), then OpenOrb won't be able to index it. If a feed has a cut-off limit for how many posts are in it, OpenOrb will only know about the ones that it had time to save. Embrace the limitations of the messy open web, and tell your friends to stop deleting posts from their feeds.
The OpenOrb icon is by Maxicons from Noun Project (CC BY 3.0).