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Similicio.us a New Relevancy Based Blog Finder

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the finding-tasty-content-for-consumption dept.

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."

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  1. Uh, doesn't work by truthsearch · · Score: 1, Informative

    I tried 2 different generic search terms and get no results, just the same form. Broken?

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    1. Re:Uh, doesn't work by Tacvek · · Score: 2, Informative

      You need to enter a URI not a search term.

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    2. Re:Uh, doesn't work by __aaahtg7394 · · Score: 4, Informative

      From what I've read, you need to enter a URL that someone has already del.icio.us'd. It then walks out along the people who have tagged that URL, finding other URLs you might find interesting.

      It's, uh, not all that ground-breaking, really. Kinda useful if it works, though. It couldn't be more than a thousand lines of (perl or python) code, including a rudimentary scoring mechanism.

    3. Re:Uh, doesn't work by Saiyine · · Score: 5, Informative


      You have to provide an url. For example, it correctly relates digg and engadget to slahdot.

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  2. Remember the dot com by Thomas+Hawk · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you aren't getting search results, remember that you have to add.com at the end. i.e. http://slashdot.org./

    1. Re:Remember the dot com by Tacvek · · Score: 2, Informative

      You remembered the final dot on the demain name. (Or you have great luck in having a typo like that). May people do not realize that domain names are actually end in a final dot. This is presumable because many browsers and DNS servers do not care about the difference. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Root_nameserver for details.

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  3. Is this thing on? by digitaldc · · Score: 1, Informative

    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?

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  4. Interesting idea by daviddennis · · Score: 2, Informative

    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.

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  5. Re:TWEET! Flag on the play! by Thomas+Hawk · · Score: 3, Informative

    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.