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Vertical: Greater automation, improved algorithms, and increased user sophistication demand that the long tail be instantly accessible for anything we should want. Eurekster allows anyone to create a topic-specific search engine.”
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Quite a few bloggers out there have clued-in to how using Eurekster's Swickis on their blogs can be a cool feature enhancement, providing custom thematic search engines for their users.”
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What about social search? Eurekster was doing this back in 2004--it experimented with friend clicks reshaping results.”
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Last year, Previews featured three groups of companies: Content Creators, featuring Generate, Near-Time, Eurekster and Decision Tree Media.”
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You may have noticed (and hopefully used!) Eurekster's swicki widget on the right column sidebar of this blog (under the heaading labeled “Buzz Cloud”). A couple more examples of swickis can be found on my personal blog and on my daughter's blog.”
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With Eurekster swickis, users can organize and tag online sources for aggregated searches of destinations in blogrolls, image and photo collections, and even videos through its association with blinkx. And users can actually make a little money on their tagging efforts. Eurekster offers swicki users with an ad-revenue-share option via AdSense, as leveraged on the Ultimate Neopets Cheats blog.”
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ChaCha and Eurekster have long specialized in "human touched" search results... Eurekster works by enabling users to save search results and highlight the links they found useful on a specific subject, for instance, Halloween costumes. New users looking for the same information can open the saved search featuring the results others decided to highlight.”
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But what's unique is that the Swicki search results ranking is reflective of every previous keyword search, click, vote and user behavior within each customized Swicki, lending a publisher-guided and community-powered slant to the results. While this might not be ideal for general search, it can really improve upon the search experience when used within the context of a niche or topic of interest.”
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Eurekster (eurekster.com) allows users to build custom search portals that tap the expertise of online communities.”
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The San Francisco search engine appointed Britta Meyer vice president of marketing. She previously held positions at Topica, Commerce One, ineed.com, Computer Consultants International, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce and Schluetersche Publishing.”
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Here is my beginning attempt at a swicki for videos about video search and video sharing online.”
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Eurekster today announces the availability of custom social video search and a video buzzcloud widget featuring best-of-breed video content from blinkx.”
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Eurekster today announces the availability of custom social video search and a video buzzcloud widget featuring best-of-breed video content from blinkx.”
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As Eurekster's Swickis learn from each search performed, the results improve for the participating community members. Incorporating more media results will be a welcome improvement for the users of Swicki, and blinkx has been the clear winner for video search engine partnerships this year.”
The video commentary featuring Steven Marder, CEO of Eurekster, and Suranga Chandratillake, CEO of blinkx, discussing the partership is posted on Vator.tv.
See the video here or click on the image below.
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Steps that you can take to achieve expertness with SMM: 6. Apply innovation directly to your site. Here's an example:”
http://microsaw-swicki.eurekster.com/ that we are using, and it's a free service.
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One trend that I am beginning to see is this: We have always said that there are 4-5 major search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MSN, AOL, Ask) and 100 Top ASE. But we may have to revisit that. Some ASE (maybe - blinkx, GigaBlast, Exalead, picsearch, Answers.com, Eurekster, Quintura - this is a new concept) seem to be growing larger than a typical ASE, but are not "major" yet either.”
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The San Francisco search engine appointed Blair Cassidy vice president of engineering. He previously held positions at PA Consulting Group, NBCi and WRONZ.”
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Sites like Google Coop or Eurekster Swicki allow you to create your own specialized search engine. In the instance of Eurekster Swicki, you can actually search pre-built search attributers or in both cases, you can create your own search attributes and insert into your blog, personal website, or company site to allow your users to find information related to your topics or line of business.”
Eurekster CEO, Steven Marder, is interviewed on ABC News for the "Ahead of the Curve" section in Technology News. Steven explains Eurekster's swicki and runs through a quick demo of how it works. See the news clip here or by clicking on the image below.
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Social search should be defined as the process by which a site's community of users influences the algorithmic search results displayed for any one of those users. A classic example from several years ago was when Eurekster powered Friendster as of 2004. Back then, you could see the most popular searches from your friends, and search results viewed by your friends appeared at the top of your results page. It was a model for social search, until it was discontinued.Over the years, Eurekster has kept up its focus on social search while taking it in new directions. It has been focusing on its Swicki product, which is essentially a custom search engine using social search. A Swicki's creator, generally a blogger, defines the sites to include or exclude and other parameters, and then searchers can vote on the results. Eurekster also shares the most popular searches for that community's engine. On Read/Write Web, the hot searches are "mobile," "next generation," and (woefully) "web 2.0," while on TechCrunch the hot searches are for "$5 million funding," "aideRSS," and "grockit." All the while, the Swicki learns from searchers' behavior.”
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Bloggers today install search boxes from Google or Eurekster to allow readers to search through their posts.”
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This is a new and interesting search engine. You can actually build your own search portal using this website. Worth a look.”
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Among the technically most advanced projects in the area of social search are the so-called Swickis developed by Eurekster. A Swicki (from "search" and "wiki") is a search engine that can be optimized for searches in certain subject areas.”
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Look, Robert, back in January 2004, Eurekster launched with the promise of mixing the social graph with other search criteria, to improve results... Eurekster is still out there, but the idea of a network of friends influencing search results seems to have died at some point over the years.”
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In this interview Steven Marder of Eurekster talks about how their Swicki product works both for online publishers to attract and monetize traffic as well as serve as a useful web site marketing tool for SEO efforts.”
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If vertical search truly aims to support the long tail, it will have to be driven by the users. Eurekster's business model shows that the company agrees; it's looking to avoid becoming a search engine itself, instead providing the technology for users to build infinite small search engines.”
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The idea for social search appeared as early as 2004, when Eurekster's "swicki"—part search, part wiki—began offering search results that "learn" from user behavior. The most clicked-on results get promoted, while those that are ignored fall off.”
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Another privately held search firm, Eurekster, tried a couple of years ago to revolutionize search with a service that let users see results that were recommended by friends in a social network.”
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Eurekster's Swicki competes admirably as a search agent. Once again, you start off by creating your own search engine. You select the topics, you choose the sites you wish to include and you pick among common search terms that you believe would be of interest to your users. After that, your new Swicki takes on a life of its own. Your users can vote results up and down, and you have the ability to completely delete entries from the result page. Ideally, in a short amount of time this will create a "perfect" results page, geared towards your users.”
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This week saw the marriage of Eurekster and Picsearch... Eurekster announced that they have entered into an agreement with Picsearch to power Eurekster's communtity driven search engines or Swickis.”
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Social search engines also enable web masters to compete better. For example, social search engine Eurekster provides 'Swickis' service that enables empowered websites to control the listings in their search results index to their benefit.”
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Eurekster swicki: Create a customized search engine for your site. The engine learns from those who use it and consistently betters its results.”
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This also explains why social search, where friends' queries and clicks influence your results, has yet to catch on (social search pioneers like Eurekster and Wink.com have endured by evolving their businesses away from that model).”
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Eurekster is a different kind of People-Powered Search Engine (Which I'll call PPSE for now on). Eurekster allows you to make a Swicki which is a search engine that you can add to your site and it learns based on what your community searches for.”
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Eurekster is a different kind of People-Powered Search Engine (Which I'll call PPSE for now on). Eurekster allows you to make a Swicki which is a search engine that you can add to your site and it learns based on what your community searches for.”
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There are some top-notch companies such as Eurekster that have some Australian capital behind them. However in this case the original technology came out of New Zealand, and it is now largely a US company, so it doesn't feature on the list.”
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The company chose to use a swicki - a combination of search and wiki software - to build a community of interest (and potential customers) around its company website... The swicki search engine learns from the popularity of the links clicked by the software developers, multimedia designers, digital photographers and graphic artists who use them. The swicki went live in September last year, and immediately doubled IA's site traffic. Since February, traffic to the IA site has increased by 10 percent each month.”
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As for the "Search" categories, Rollyo came in first, Eurekster Swicki placed second, and Pipl got third, so the omnipresent Google was, surprisingly, not visible among the top three.”
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2. Eurekster swicki: Create a customized search engine for your site. The engine learns from those who use it and consistently betters its results.”
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The Buzz-o-Meter meets the Quote-of-the-Day in this gem from Steven Marder of Eurekster: "Swickis [Eurekster's social search product] provide navigation and discovery through connection and engagement."”
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Perhaps by this point the author was beginning to realize that he'd bitten off more than he could chew, or alternatively it was badly edited, but in either case the opportunity to look at this in depth was missed. These errors continued in the section on creating customized search engines - where was the discussion of the Eurekster swicki?”
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There was a wonderful group of content companies involved... Other content companies included Eurekster, which empowers communities to own and refine site-based web search. The search and monetization platform enables the passion of community for customers in the social search and collaboration space.”
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Is it helpful to produce resources based on the Google custom search builder alone? Don't get me wrong, I'm not knocking it - it's a great, easy and simple to use tool and I've created one or two myself, but it's not the only one out there. The Eurekster swicki, the Yahoo search builder, Rollyo to name but three. Why use Google. Or rather more - why *just* use Google? What if the Google tool isn't actually the best one for the job?”
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The panel includes Steven Marder, CEO of Eurekster, myself and Gil Mandler, CMO of Mandlers and consultant for Exoloop. The panel will be moderated by Bill Flitter, founder or RSS advertising platform, Pheedo.”
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Search engine Eurekster offers Swickis, self-customized search engines that can be embedded, for free, on any Web site. Publishers and individuals can create Swickis on any topic, and Eurekster's technology customizes the search results based on those topics and the search behavior of those who use it. Says Steven Marder, Eurekster's chief executive: "It's somewhat personalization, but based instead on the communities you are visiting."”
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Content-generating users are increasingly part of the economics as well. Eurekster already goes one step further suggesting how valuable swicki communities are, estimating that some swickis could actually generate up to $30,000 a year in revenue to their owners and be worth up to $300,000 if a buyer used typical methods for valuation.”
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It may be that the data-driven culture that got Google this far needs to get a little more social in its dealings with the outside world. "It's not just about click-through on an ad," notes Steven E. Marder, CEO of Eurekster Inc., a search services provider that uses online communities to refine results. "It's about humans."”
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Eurekster, a provider of social search technology, has secured $5.5 million in a Series B financing.”
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Christchurch founder Dr. Grant Ryan and his team will use the funding to further market and develop software to help better search the web, enabling those with special interests to more easily find information.”
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Eurekster, a provider of social search technology, has secured $5.5 million in a Series B financing.”
Eurekster Inc., a search engine operator which incorporates social networking into its results, has raised a $5.5 million Series B round in its first institutional financing.
The round was led by Technology Venture Partners of Australia and included participation from Transcosmos Investments of Japan and private investors. Private investors also provided the company's $1.5 million Series A financing.
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Eurekster, a San Francisco company that tailors search engines for bloggers and other publishers to put on their sites, has raised $5.5 million in a second round of financing. Eurekster's search engines are more social than Google's, because Eurekster lets the site publishers limit the sources Eurekster's engine scans while searching. Many publishers want their readers to be able to do a topical based search, removing the non-relevant clutter that may find its way into Google results.”
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Eurekster, known for their Swicki community-driven search platform, has just announced $5.5 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Technology Venture Partners of Australia and Transcosmos Investments of Japan. Eurekster's most popular product, Swicki's, are site specific search engines (we've included a swicki in our right sidebar for some time).”
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Eurekster, the social search site based in San Francisco, has receive $5.5 million in its second round of funding. The round was led by Technology Venture Partners of Australia and Transcosmos Investments of Japan with the participation of the private investors from first round. The proceeds will help in global expansion, the company said.”
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Online search company Eurekster Inc. said Tuesday it raised $5.5 million in its second round of venture funding.”
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I interviewed Steven in the past, and from our past conversations and his demo, I have to say the service could be quite useful for niche publishers who want search rankings to be based on what their audience or experts within that audience find to be most relevant for particular keywords.”
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So, it’s worth mentioning that social search engine Eurekster will announce a $5.5 million Series B round on Tuesday. The round was led by Technology Venture Partners (TVP) of Australia and Transcosmos Investments of Japan with the participation of private investors.”
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Social and veritical search provider Eurekster just announced that it closed a Series B round for $5.5 million... The Swicki is one of the early widgets and its adoption by bloggers has helped propel the emergence of the new "widget economy."”
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Eurekster, Inc., a pioneer and leader in community-driven, social search has secured $5.5 million in a Series B financing.”
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Meanwhile another company focusing on social search–Eurekster–announced yesterday that it had raised $5.5 million in second round financing (its first venture round) from Technology Venture Partners of Australia and Transcosmos Investments of Japan Eurekster offers to blog publishers contextual, user-driven search widgets called Swickis.”
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Eurekster, known for their Swicki community-driven search platform, has just announced $5.5 million in Series B funding. The round was led by Technology Venture Partners of Australia and Transcosmos Investments of Japan.”
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Enter Eurekster, a "Swicki community-driven search platform" that just pulled in $5.5 million in funding. There are words in that description that I don’t even understand — it gives me the same tingly sensation I got when first reading about PageRank. I didn’t know what it did, or how it worked, I just knew it made me tingle. Feel the tingle, folks.”
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The search engine that has dedicated its services to searching communities and social networks has provided value to many, nonetheless, and has become an easy solution for bloggers and niche communities across the board. When it comes to niche search engines, Eurekster has proven to have staying power.”
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Swicki - Free software that allows you to create a search engine on your site that will evolve the results over time to better serve users based on their click patterns.”
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Now you can directly influence and contribute to the search results.There are several reasons why this could appeal to you and I wanted to share them with the users of my Swickis.”
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Eurekster is one of the most interesting social search engines for applying collborative filtering principles to search results ranking before most.”
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Below are some of the most popular social search tools and i have placed them under headings which i felt were most appropriate... Social tagging is a popular way to locate, classify, rank, and share Internet resources through the use of shared lists of user-created Internet bookmarks.It is a way o
