Filed under: Blogging, Web services, Search, web 2.0
Out of Beta: Gettin' Twingly Wit It
Today, the blog search engine Twingly has officially come out of beta.Twingly allows you to search for the "Best of Blogs", with spam free results, the company says.
The folks at Twingly are also announcing their new widget platform that lets you turn any search result into a widget quickly. See an example here.
We're not sure how "spam free" this is, or what type of technology they use to make this claim, but the results didn't look that great when we did a search.
The saving grace here is that you can vote a result as a "like", which will bring it up in the ranks. A little Digg style there thrown in. It's going to take a lot of early adoption on Twingly's part to make that system work.
Along with the search, you can translate results into other languages, as well as subscribe to an RSS feed of any search as well. That's pretty standard stuff.
The Hot Right Now feature that shows up under the search bar could pick up some steam though. With all of the content out there, the trend seems to be towards companies trying to find a way to bubble up the most "important" or "interesting" content. We'll watch to see how this evolves and to see how accurate and/or helpful it is.
Twingly admits themselves that they're focusing on European blogs even though they're indexing worldwide, so that's something to keep in mind too.
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Joran said 9:31AM on 6-13-2008
Hello! Thank you for your mention. In order to search in the spam-free index you need to use the "Spam-free search"-button on the search page, or specify approved=True in the search query string.
http://www.twingly.com/search?q=downloadsquad&approved=True
Otherwise you will get all our indexed posts which can include spam.
/Jörgen, Twingly
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