TheRarestWords
This is a project that I’ve begun as a hobby some time back in December 2007. It’s still a hobby, occupying a single server and non-profit. First it was just showing what words the main page of site uses and which of them are used often around the Web and which are used next to nil. At that time I’ve had no idea what to do with that so I called it a linguistic experiment.
What is it now? I still have no idea. It’s an experiment which has no direction, no result and a way to stop it from eating my money is yet to be discovered.
So what you can do with it right now?
- Find out which words do you use on your main page are rare, common, too popular and of course - the rarest words.
- Share your knowledge about some subject (crowd wisdom) - type anything under the word and World could now see what you know.
- See the related sites for your site based on rarest words (my original algorithm)
- Auto-categorization of your sites against big list of categories (my original algo). The only thing on site that almost doesn’t care about rarest words
What’s in plans?
- Trendspotting (which words are gaining popularity - like “django” is becoming more popular, “python” is still strong, and which are losing it like “perl”)
- Help with SEO for mom-and-dad-kind of business sites. (Would be useless to professionals, probably)
- and a lot of more (I have a lot of ideas, but don’t want to announce them until they’re ready cause this project is a hobby and I might even never get to do them).
Anyway, some more stuff about the project: it’s still linguistic and still experimental and still raw beta (one server is not nearly enough for massive stats of millions of words).
The spider which is going out late May will probably start to obey robots.txt does obey robots.txt, so if you dislike therarestwords - you can just let spider know not to snoop around.
As for the rest - there is a lot of interest in project (there are some plans to help people with seo - actually it was a mistake that I made that led to understanding how projects could improve SEO-stuff — the auto-categorizer part would be about that - just not a lot of time from work to do that. The idea is that if you use more words like other sites that are using to get top rankings for keywords. Here’s a little more about it.
If you want to know how this site developed and a little of tech-background - suggested reading is the rarest words’ site history (NB there’re 4 parts of it).
About me
I’m Russian, living in Russia. Haven’t met any bears on streets, sorry. The rarest words has nothing to do with my daytime work. It’s a hobby.