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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."
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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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The are rather repetitio.us.
No, it's just correctly identified all the blogs that are presently worth reading. Perhaps it's worth using it to check once a year or so? You never know...
I just can't wait for the ico.us bubble burst of 2012!
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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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 :)
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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I think we can speak for most of us here when I say,
ENOUGH ALREADY ! It has jumped the freaking shark or
whatever.
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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.
To you, maybe... but for those who aren't familiar with the format, they're surreptitio.us
anncoulter.com appropriately returns anklebitingpundits.com and neowarmonger.blogspot.com.
100% accuracy. Bravo.
They are rather repetitio.us.
Some people might find them ingenio.us, stupendo.us and humoro.us.
I find them pretentio.us, superfluo.us, and ridiculo.us, not to mention meretricio.us.
(I had to use my thesaur.us.)
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