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