Similicio.us a New Relevancy Based Blog Finder 65
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."
Re:Thomas is like Roland. (Score:2)
This is a new trend? Roland was not the first anyway, he just advanced the art...
Re:Thomas is like Roland. (Score:1)
Re:Thomas is like Roland. (Score:1, Troll)
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.
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Re:Thomas is like Roland. (Score:2)
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!
Re:Thomas is like Roland. (Score:1)
Re:Thomas is like Roland. (Score:2)
Uh, doesn't work (Score:1, Informative)
Re:Uh, doesn't work (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Uh, doesn't work (Score:2)
Re:Uh, doesn't work (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Uh, doesn't work (Score:5, Informative)
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.
It does work... (Score:3, Funny)
100% accuracy. Bravo.
Re:Uh, doesn't work (Score:5, Informative)
You have to provide an url. For example, it correctly relates digg and engadget to slahdot [similicio.us].
Re:Uh, doesn't work (Score:1)
Remember the dot com (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Remember the dot com (Score:2, Informative)
Re:Remember the dot com (Score:1)
s/demain/domain/
s/are//
Small guys vs big corporations (Score:5, Insightful)
Millions of dollars and thousands of PhDs don't buy you a monopoly on good ideas.
Re:Small guys vs big corporations (Score:2)
Re:Anyone else find these URLs annoying? (Score:2)
Re:Anyone else find these URLs annoying? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Anyone else find these URLs annoying? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Anyone else find these URLs annoying? (Score:5, Funny)
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.)
Re:Anyone else find these URLs annoying? (Score:1)
Wait...
...wasn't I a n00b back then??
oh snap
Good lord! (Score:1)
More importantly (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:More importantly (Score:3, Funny)
Is this thing on? (Score:2, Informative)
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/ [bbc.co.uk]
Is this what is supposed to happen?
TWEET! Flag on the play! (Score:5, Funny)
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 :)
Re:TWEET! Flag on the play! (Score:4, Informative)
Re:TWEET! Flag on the play! (Score:2)
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.
Re: (Score:1)
Re:TWEET! Flag on the play! (Score:1)
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 f
Re:TWEET! Flag on the play! (Score:1)
Re:TWEET! Flag on the play! (Score:1)
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
Interesting idea (Score:3, Informative)
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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re: Words ending in us and the .us TLD (Score:3, Funny)
ENOUGH ALREADY ! It has jumped the freaking shark or
whatever.
Re: Words ending in us and the .us TLD (Score:2)
Re: Words ending in us and the .us TLD (Score:1)
Re: Words ending in us and the .us TLD (Score:2)
Don't you mean it's jumped the Isur.us oxyrinch.us [wikipedia.org]?
Re: Words ending in us and the .us TLD (Score:2)
$ grep 'us$'
11835
Not done yet.
Apparently it's one of a kind... (Score:1)
uh...hasn't this been done? (Score:1)
Evaluation? (Score:1, Offtopic)
Re:Evaluation? (Score:2)
Irrelevant (Score:1)
Isn't that an oxymoron?
Try my site (Score:1)
its http://i.nt.ro/ [i.nt.ro]
its anonymous login. to filter just ur comments do http://i.nt.ro/?userid=me [i.nt.ro]
Reminds me of a simple hack I did a few months ago (Score:1)
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 (
Blog relevance? (Score:1)