In two weeks, our esteemed CEO, Steven Marder, will be traveling to New York to speak on a panel at Search Engine Strategies New York. He will share his knowledge of the social search industry on the "Social Search: The Next Step" panel on Wednesday, March 19 at 5:30pm. If you happen to be in New York at this time and can attend the show, make sure to check it out...

Eurekster is a leader in social search. Their product, the swicki, is a custom search and discovery engine. Having pioneered and optimized universal search results, Eurekster today announces the launch of its next generation search results page (SERP), which surfaces the following community content in an engaging, user-centric interface.

Day two brings us a revolution. It won't be televised but it will be liveblogged. Moderator Chris Sherman (Search Engine Land) will be keeping revolutionaries Steven Marder (Eurekster) and Phil McDonnell (Google, Inc.) on track. (Yahoo's representative had to bow out for a family emergency.) Viva la revolution! [...]

Site-specific search provider Eurekster is today releasing a new version of its Swicki product that features a set of community features on its results and home pages.

Eureskter, maker of the custom Swicki, is coming out with a new release today. It's "next generation" of search, actually, building from its existing tools for custom search options used by web publishers.

From General Search, to Vertical Search, to Blended Search, to Custom Search - search landscape is constantly evolving and including more new ways to expose the web properties to the searchers.

http://wine-finder-swicki.eurekster.com/french+champagne

http://flowers-swicki.eurekster.com/valentines

http://search-for-recipes-swicki.eurekster.com/Valentine's

http://valentines-day-swicki.eurekster.com/expensive+gifts

http://chocolate-lovers-search-swicki.eurekster.com/chocolate+gifts/

http://follow-the-nfl-draft-swicki.eurekster.com/Winners+and+Losers

http://nfl-247-swicki.eurekster.com/Touch+Football/

http://loves-beer-swicki.eurekster.com/American+Lager/

http://peyton-manning-search-swicki.eurekster.com/Peyton+Manning+Offseason/

http://dating-and-relationships-search-swicki.eurekster.com

Newly out of beta, a swicki is a custom search portal on a topic of your choice that can be easily built for you to own and share with others interested in the same topic. With every search and vote or click on results, your swicki learns and becomes more relevant for your community. Check out our top 10 holiday swickis -- you'll soon find out how to spread the holiday cheer.

1. Holiday Outfits -- Clothing to spread the holiday cheer:

http://christmas-clothing-search-swicki.eurekster.com

2. Entertaining During the Holidays -- A must have for the holidays; Fun, Cheer and Libations:

http://cocktail-swicki-swicki.eurekster.com

3. Do-It-Yourself/How-to -- MacGyver doesn't have anything on me!:

http://howto1-swicki.eurekster.com

4. What to do During the Holidays -- Use holiday games as a way to keep guests entertained:

http://great-day-games-search-swicki.eurekster.com

5. Personal Finance -- Save your smackers for the mistletoe by saving on holiday gifts:

http://i-dig-deals-swicki.eurekster.com

6. Wine and Food -- White or Red, or a blush? How to pick the right wine and food pairing for your holiday dinner party:

http://winemaker-swicki.eurekster.com

7. Lactose Free Recipes -- For those who wish they could drink a gallon of egg nog:

http://dairy-free-recipes-swicki.eurekster.com

8. Eat too much Pumpkin Pie, oh my! -- How to lose those holiday pounds:

http://weight-loss-solutions-swicki.eurekster.com

9. Dating and Relationships -- Need a date for that holiday party?:

http://fun-dating-quizzes-swicki.eurekster.com

10. New Year's Resolutions -- Kick that smoking habit:

http://quit-smoking-swicki.eurekster.com

Need help or advice on a different topic? Visit www.eurekster.com to browse the swicki directory or simply build your own -- with video too!

ABOUT EUREKSTER

Eurekster, Inc. (www.eurekster.com) is a pioneer and leader in social search technologies. Its custom search portal and widget ("swicki") harness the knowledge, passion and behavior of online communities to improve the search experience, while creating online assets for Web publishers and infopreneurs. With Eurekster, Web publishers and infopreneurs can build and customize their "swicki" search portal on any topic, and share and distribute the social search widget to grow a community of interested users. With every search, the swicki becomes more relevant and meaningful to the user community, and more valuable to the swicki builder. To date, more than 100,000 swickis have been created by over 20,000 swicki builders in over 15 countries. Founded in 2004, Eurekster, Inc. is a venture-backed, privately held company headquartered in San Francisco, California with its research and development group based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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CORE NEWS FACTS

Eurekster today announces 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:

• Autodetect: Automatically finds content for the buzzcloud and preferred result sources, so the swicki builder doesn't have to.
• RSS: Includes most recent posts including time stamp for freshest results.
• Mobius algorithm: Automatically surfaces new and interesting content while keeping the swicki focused.

Please use this link to access a purpose-built del.icio.us page. For updated information, coverage and the latest industry news and reaction -- tap into Eurekster's RSS feed.

Take the Eurekster Virtual Tour Here!

PRE-APPROVED QUOTES FROM STEVEN MARDER, CEO & CO-FOUNDER, EUREKSTER, INC.

• "Our growing network and customer base of swickibuilders prove what site visitors, publishers and 'infopreneurs' already know: social search is the most effective way to harness the power of the community for a more targeted and relevant vertical, local, or socially connected search experience. And, with the introduction of today's enhancements, swickis provide even fresher and more dynamic search results, while being easier to set-up and use than ever, allowing anyone the benefit of robust social search."


• "Now that we've achieved a level of critical mass with over 100,000 swickis built by over 25,000 publishers serving over nine million unique users monthly, we are now concentrating our efforts on the incorporation of enhanced voting tools, improved commenting capabilities, and other features requested by our user-base. By further encouraging community collaboration and empowerment, publishers and infopreneurs will have even more opportunity to build their brands, increase search volume and drive monetization."

PRE-APPROVED QUOTE FROM GREG STERLING, FOUNDING PRINCIPAL OF STERLING MARKET INTELLIGENCE AND SENIOR ANALYST, LOCAL MOBILE SEARCH

• "Eurekster has created a powerful application that sits at the intersection of search, community and vertical content. And the product continues to evolve in very provocative and interesting directions."

ABOUT EUREKSTER

Eurekster, Inc. (www.eurekster.com) is a pioneer and leader in social search technologies. Its custom search portal and widget ("swicki") harness the knowledge, passion and behavior of online communities to improve the search experience, while creating online assets for Web publishers and infopreneurs. With Eurekster, Web publishers and infopreneurs can build and customize their "swicki" search portal on any topic, and share and distribute the social search widget to grow a community of interested users. With every search, the swicki becomes more relevant and meaningful to the user community, and more valuable to the swicki builder. To date, more than 100,000 swickis have been created by over 25,000 swicki builders in over 15 countries. Founded in 2004, Eurekster, Inc. is a venture-backed, privately held company headquartered in San Francisco, California with its research and development group based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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.