Eurekster announces Swicki out of beta!
Eurekster just announced that the Swicki – a custom search portal and social search widget – has been released from beta. Swicki builders and end users will now benefit from a deeper offering of new and enhanced features providing an improved user experience, through achieving a higher standard of relevance and freshness of community-powered search results.
· As Eurekster moves out of beta, its community has grown to 25,000 publishers with more than 100,000 swickis built. Eurekster receives more than 25 million search queries a month performed by over nine million unique visitors monthly. In light of the company’s innovation and continued momentum, Eurekster was recently named a Red Herring Global 100 finalist.
· Eurekster, a pioneer and leader in providing a custom search and social search experience, is a content discovery engine that provides relevant, targeted, community-driven results, increasing search relevance and value for site visitors, Web publishers and “infopreneurs.”
· With Eurekster, anyone from online publishers to “infopreneurs” to topic experts can build and customize a swicki search portal on any topic, and then share and distribute the widget to grow a community of interested end users. With every search, the swicki becomes more relevant and meaningful to the user community, and also more valuable to the swicki builder.
· The new features aim to ease swicki creation and significantly enhance results relevance by adding automation to the building process. Now, when setting up their swickis, users simply enter their site’s URL to trigger auto detection of relevant content for the swicki buzzcloud and whitelist of related websites to be prioritized in the search and display of search results. Content sources include blogrolls, metatags and RSS, allowing for a more dynamic search experience and fresher search results. For a full demo, please see the interactive tour below.
· New feature summary:
o Autodetect: Automatically finds content for the buzzcloud and preferred result sources, so the swicki builder doesn’t have to.
o RSS: Includes most recent posts including time stamp for freshest results.
o Mobius algorithm: Automatically surfaces new and interesting content while keeping the swicki focused.
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Steven E. Marder
CEO & Co-Founder Eurekster
