Apr 2, 2008 in Blogosphere, Europe, Social search, Spam-free, Twingly, Web 2.0
Today we launch a next-generation blog search engine at Twingly.com. Participate in the invite-only beta by getting invited or signing up at beta.twingly.com. So what’s cool with the new Twingly.com?
Spam free, social search
Twingly takes a zero-spam approach to blog search using an algorithmically expanding white list instead of the traditional blacklist. Powerful moderation tools allows us to win the fight against spam by one-click removal of clusters of tens of thousands of spam blogs. Fat tail manual moderation yields quality input to long tail algorithmic filtering.
Social search features allows users to share quality content with each other and the community as a whole.
Powerful search language and tech plan Digg
Twingly provides the world’s most powerful search language for blogs, where search filters can be combined in new ways.
But we’re not done by far! Participate in voting on our tech plan by signing up for the beta. JSON api? OPML import or APML export? Help us decide what’s next!
Techcrunch post is here and Techcrunch UK here.
Mar 6, 2008 in Mobile, Search, Social search
Mobile internet in cellphone’s growing but there’s still no search engine that yet have been really successful, mobile search need something more then a clean search box. The answer that will revolutionize how the search experience both feels mobile, easy and useful is - social interaction.
Altsearchengines.com wrote today about the mobile search engine Taptu that’s trying to do their search social and their CEO explain in a very good way why they’re an alternative to Google that we should count in.
Google’s position seems untouchable when it comes to desktop search, but challenging the giant on the mobile phone might work. Ives explains why: “Services like Google were born on the desktop and then moved later to mobile. When moving the service to mobile, something gets lost in the translation. A desktop user will use search 5 times a day or more, but a mobile user that discovers Google Mobile or Yahoo OneSearch typically only searches once every 5 to 7 days. We believe that to get people to use mobile search 5 times a day or more - in other words, to make mobile search a mass market service rather than a niche service - then you have to give it a social context. Mobiles are supersocial devices, so if your service isn’t relevant to you in a social way it won’t get used that often.”
