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I just got an email from Esteban Kozak, from SearchFox, in which he announced that SearchFox will be shut down next January 25th!

SearchFox Users,

Thanks for all your help in making SearchFox what it is. We have enjoyed providing this service, and hope that you have enjoyed using it. Please export all of your links and an OPML file with your RSS sources before the site shuts down. In accordance with our privacy policy, we will delete all personal information on January 25 after we shut down the services.

Esteban Kozak
SearchFox

This saddens me a lot, since I've been using SearchFox since September last year and I've been very pleased with it. Even though they support Exporting to OPML, I'll lose the entire archive of items. This is why I'm starting to look for a replacement and one of the requirements is: I must be able to download the application package and run it on my Apache server. That way, if there's anyone to blame for the loss of data, it will be me.

All of this makes me think of Tantek Çelik's presentation Microformats: Evolving the Web at Web Essentials '05. If there was already a microformat for items in an aggregator, I'd be able to export the entire archive and not lose a byte. Is there? If there is, I can't find it anywhere.

There's an article about this on Techcrunch.

A good replacement could be feedlounge, but for starters it's a web-based solution and I'm getting tired of switching. Plus, as you can see on this Feedlounge Review at Broken Kode, there will be a monthly fee of $5. Seems like it'll be a long search, specially since I'm kind of picky about this.