A few weeks ago I was bored and wanted to try out Google App Engine. I decided to build something that would work on it's free tier, and since I was bored I wanted something to read.
I decided to find ~700 news rss feeds and build my own feed reader. To test out the performance of App Engine, I had it parse out every word on the article's page, remove common words (the, how, it, and, or, banana brothers, etc..), and use Princeton's wordnet to group similar words. Once the similar words were grouped, I compared the groups of words with each other to find similar articles. As more and more articles get grouped, the newest article in the group gets displayed on the page, and the group with the highest amount of stories gets pushed to the top. It works 90% of the time about 75% of the time. I posted it on reddit awhile ago and I noticed there are 30 or so people visiting everyday, I figured some of you guys might want to watch the experiment unfold lol.
url : https://euclidsprime.com/
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