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."
Uh, doesn't work (Score:1, Informative)
Remember the dot com (Score:3, Informative)
Re:Uh, doesn't work (Score:2, Informative)
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?
Re:Remember the dot com (Score:2, Informative)
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.
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].
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:TWEET! Flag on the play! (Score:4, Informative)