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Similicio.us a New Relevancy Based Blog Finder
Thomas Hawk writes "Similicio.us is a brand new search engine that matches up the database of del.icio.us with the power of the search engine EasyUtil.com The result is a new blog finder tool that can help you discover new websites based upon what you currently like. Interesting to see a small time guy come up with a pretty cool tool like this while the major search players are spending millions trying to improve their own relevancy in blog search."
I tried 2 different generic search terms and get no results, just the same form. Broken?
Developers: We can use your help.
If you aren't getting search results, remember that you have to add.com at the end. i.e. http://slashdot.org./
Interesting to see a small time guy come up with a pretty cool tool like this while the major search players are spending millions trying to improve their own relevancy in blog search.
Millions of dollars and thousands of PhDs don't buy you a monopoly on good ideas.
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Similicio.us? Why not Similicious.com or Similicio.xxx?
It seems too much like a gimmick and should be done away with.
This is a new trend? Roland was not the first anyway, he just advanced the art...
"Who are in control, they are not in control of anything - they don't even control themselves!" - Glen Beck
How many more search engines do we need? I just learned JavaScript last year and thought, I know! I'll make a search engine! Look out Google, here I come
- nightcrawler "Reality is an illusion, albeit a ver persistent one..." -A.Einstein
I've thought blogs have been needing some kind of relevance for some time. So I guess this is a step in the right direction. Well done.
There are no ads on Thomas' site.
Although I am tired of the foolicio.us things, I really dig Flickrlicio.us (maybe NSFW)
-mkb
who the hell is Roland *whatever* ???-- I love it when people name-drop individuals that only a particular group of people would know... Here's one -- Albert Croissant De Marcheu - the father of the transparent mousepad that's only sold with new POS clones and only on Tuesdays.
- nightcrawler "Reality is an illusion, albeit a ver persistent one..." -A.Einstein
First of all, there are no instructions which is unfortunate.
I tried slashdot.com and got results including digg.com (most relevant) all the way to cnn.com, twit.tv and palminfocenter (not that relevant.)
For fun, I typed in 'hello' which linked me to http://news.bbc.co.uk/
Is this what is supposed to happen?
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
Total AJAX-based Web 2.0 Buzzword Compliance Score: A humdrum 3 out of 4, one flag on the play for potential conflict of interest.
Stand down venture capital torpedoes, adjust funding phase to "standby" until the site requires Javascript and Piquepaille or Beatles-Beatles have blogged about it.
(No hard feelings, Mr. Hawk, but you set yourself up for this :)
Entering http://slashdot.org/ retrieved about a dozen sites of varying usefulness. Butt-ugly though.
Roland is a fellow whose article suggestions to Slashdot mysteriously all seem to get approved, so you see a few stories a week from him.
Some people think this is a conspiracy of some kind, possibly greased with money or influence.
Or it's possible that Slashdot's management simply finds him a reliable source of articles that they can put up as interesting without looking at in any depth.
D
I did a search for Livejournal.com and it didn't find Deadjournal.com which is described as "Based on the same open source code as LiveJournal, but with a much darker mood."
but it found less relavent websites like:
Google.com
en.wikipedia.org
news.bbc.co.uk
Is this a new trend started by Roland Piquepalle?
He's the guy who made that pocket fisherman and that rotisserie thing, right?
*infomercial mode on*
Hey, you know what I need? A way to consolidate all the fark/metafilter/etc websites into a single website database!
So this site tells us that it's a way for us to find fresh blogs and reading material based on the blogs I know.
So I put instapundit.com in and got a bunch of blogs as results. I read almost all of them regularly.
I clicked on a few of the results and got even more results, most of which I knew.
You can either say that I don't have a life, which is probably true, or that this site points out sites whose relevence is pretty obvious to anyone paying attention.
In short, if you read Instapundit, you know it links to Daily Kos or the Corner in National Review or Little Green Footballs regularly. So therefore you already go to those places if they interest you.
All this search engine seems to do is remember and build on those relationships, which sounds like it would be interesting but is really pointing out things you probably already know.
D
I think we can speak for most of us here when I say,
ENOUGH ALREADY ! It has jumped the freaking shark or
whatever.
music lover since 1969
No conflict of interest here. I have no money or vested interest in the company whatsoever. Just like the technology. As far as I know this is just some guy and not even a company I/you could invest in. As way of personal disclosure though, my current tech holdings personally include(nothing exciting here, go ahead an mock me) Microsoft Intel Adobe Oracle Time Warner Dell and that's it. I don't buy small cap tech stocks at all. Lots of other non tech related companies and I don't do an advising in the tech world at all.
Nothing similar to similicio.us...
http://blogbunch.com/
I have an anti-gravity machine: http://plg.uwaterloo.ca/~gvcormac/antigravity/. I wonder why the Brits spent so much money building Harrier jets?
Spells an English word and uses a .us domain name - check.
Would you care to define similicious? I can't seem to find a definition for it in any dictionary.
"of, relating to, or containing similica or a similicate" doesn't count unless you also define what similica is.
Relevancy Based Blog Finder
Isn't that an oxymoron?
Old people fall. Young people spring. Rich people summer and winter.
> Says "blog" and "relevancy-based" - check.
Especially when the word is "relevance". Relevancy is a noun.
An addict has a dependency. The founders didn't sign the Declaration of Independency.
Anyone demanding "competency exams" for teachers probably has a strike against their competence already (it could be correct in this case, and "competencies" even more so, but it's a godawful business buzzword then).
Yeah yeah, grammarnazi, sieg Semicolon. I just thought I'd go pick on this this digital hipsterism from a new angle, that's all.
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
So would you rather everybody got back to .com? I mean, the URL so to end in something!!
Life has many choices. Eternity has two. What's yours?
Actually, relevance is a noun too, and means close to the same thing as relevancy. :)
its http://i.nt.ro/
its anonymous login. to filter just ur comments do http://i.nt.ro/?userid=me
Reminds me of a simple hack I did a few months ago...
//something like this... //20 results
I wrote a script to generate timely blog-news results. I read the headlines from the Google News rss feed. Then I put the headlines into a Google Blogsearch, and read the rss feed for the first result. The results from the blog search are often timely news headlines.
while( googleNewsRss->headlines){
googleBlogSearchRSS(googleNewsRss->headlines, limit = 1)
}
You can see working code (php) at my weblog (with a working example in the sidebar). (sorry I have ads on this site)
http://slipgrid.net/about-weblog-news/
You can also see a working example at my news agg... no ads here... The ones generated by this method are gray.
http://freepress.slipgrid.net/
anncoulter.com appropriately returns anklebitingpundits.com and neowarmonger.blogspot.com.
100% accuracy. Bravo.
ENOUGH ALREADY ! It has jumped the freaking shark or whatever.
Don't you mean it's jumped the Isur.us oxyrinch.us?
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None. Next!
No, I think he just wants people to stop naming their .us domain a word that ends in -us. It's not cute anymore.
You obviously haven't bought the latest version of Websters Dictionary, Blogosphere Edition.
Web consulting +
You got me there.
... irrelevant. Well, not completely, but I don't really find arstechnica.com, flickr.com, and microsoft.com to have a lot in common. I'd probably do better just googling the nouns in interesting articles on a site I was on.
I still like to pull out the "Declaration of Independency" line, and I'm still pretty sure that "relevance" is the word the submitter's looking for. Being fair and all, the site doesn't actually use the word.
I did play around with it a bit and found it largely
Done with slashdot, done with nerds, getting a life.
your blog fucking sucks, no one wants to paypal you money to support it.. are you like some peddling internet bum? we are not fucking incompetent here. slashdot knows how to type in a fucking web address. GO AWAY
It's kind of cute though. People have been doing that kind of thing in Europe for years, to the point where just about every possible word has been covered, using not only European country domains, but also all those little countries like .la that sell their domains on the open market. Now you get a few English words in .us domains and everybody's up in arms? Find something worthwhile to be bothered about.
Hmmm.
/usr/share/dict/words | wc -l
$ grep 'us$'
11835
Not done yet.
you need a life first before you do all that consolidating...
- nightcrawler "Reality is an illusion, albeit a ver persistent one..." -A.Einstein