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The Economist Explorer - A better Economist article discovery & search engine

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I love The Economist. But finding certain articles for research or reference is hard. So I had to build a better tool that allows exploring their content better. More about why and how, check this article: > Some personal favorites for exploring The Economist articles: > Most popular Obituary > Recent Cover Stories > Economist Theory Explained Using: - 's Instantsearch.js for the UX building blocks. - OpenCalais for semantic entity extraction. You do need a subscription to The Economist to access the content. Works best on desktop, mobile needs some work.
Cool project! One question: did you put the whole content of the articles in Algolia or just a summary?
Maker
only the titles and thumbnail! Exactly what is already available if you look at a print edition in their archive.
Great, thank you ;)
😩 finally! 👌🏽
Maker
as-in you agree their search didn't work for you as well?
yep. Shall get to using your product this evening and give you feedback
This should be what the homepage of every newspaper and magazine looks like.
This would be awesome if it were only 5 years ago, when The Economist was way way better.
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just filter out the articles published after 2011: ;)
As a former Media co-founder, getting News search right is SO hard. This is a great implementation!
This is awesome! It's great that you can filter by region or section to make articles easier to find.
Awesome! 🔎🎉 I love that can sort by "Most Comments".
Finally! Finding things I've read on the Economist is such a pain.
The Economist has the worst digital design and strategy in the history of major publications. They should pay you royalties.