Developer here .. I wanted to share a free news and content search engine I have been developing called WhatSubject.
WhatSubject allows you to search for breaking news and content from thousands of sites using strings, words, topics and by specific sites.
WhatSubject also supports smart search URLs so you can just add what you want to search for after the WhatSubject URL.
Show recent content from TheVerge.com ..
https://whatsubject.com/theverge.com
Show recent content for the #linux topic ..
https://whatsubject.com/linux
Show recent content for "ycombinator" string search ..
https://whatsubject.com/ycombinator
You can also combine searches ..
@theverge.com elon musk twitter
There are no user accounts on WhatSubject, but there are several settings you can change including the site theme and search result layout format.
You can also take advantage of several content filters including blocking known right-biased sources and/or left-biased sources, political content and paywalled sites.
Your latest searches are shown on the home page as the first entries in the tag cloud followed by other recent popular searches.
You can disable or delete your search history (it is stored using cookies) as well as delete all cookies.
Also, rather than !bangs, I added quick search buttons for other news and search engine sites to the bottom of search result pages.
I built WhatSubject because I wanted a way to find and read site content quickly by topics and sites using a clutter-free interface.
I hope some people enjoy it!
-Zeras
