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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."
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.
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 :)
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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