Findborg has two new search tabs: Ping and Pong. They do different things, and both are built on community-contributed feeds — no algorithm, no editorial curation, no paid placement.
Ping: Feed search
Ping searches RSS feeds, blogs, and news sources across the open web. Results pull from the last seven days. If something was published recently and it lives in a feed, Ping finds it.
This is for people who are tired of watching the same five sites dominate every news search. Ping doesn’t rank by domain authority or advertising relationships — it searches feeds directly. What’s in the feed is what you find.
Citizens can add feeds at findborg.com/ping/. If there’s a source you rely on that Ping doesn’t cover yet, add it.
Pong: Podcast and video search
Pong searches podcast feeds and video content. It’s the open equivalent of what Google Podcasts was before Google shut it down — a place to find shows and episodes without being funneled through a platform’s recommendations engine.
Pong is built for people who know what they’re looking for but can’t find it because the major podcast apps bury independent shows under sponsored content. Search for a topic on Pong and you’ll see what’s actually out there.
Citizens can add podcast and video feeds at findborg.com/pong/. Independent shows especially benefit from being added — that’s how they get found.
Why they’re separate
Ping and Pong search the same underlying architecture — community-contributed feeds — but the content types are different enough to warrant separate interfaces. A news feed search and a podcast search have different rhythms, different metadata, different expectations. Keeping them separate makes both more useful.
Both sit inside Findborg’s tab structure alongside Web, Image, Video, News, Breakdown, and Workspace. Neither uses paid placement. Neither uses ads.
Both Ping and Pong get better as Citizens add feeds. If you’ve got one worth searching, add it.
