pronounced ’sfir, n. - an area or range over or within which someone or something acts, exists, or has influence or significance.
Hooray! Sphere has launched. It is a new blog search engine with some interesting features, including profile, stats, and time frame winnowing. Results are based on relevance and not merely links into a blog.An eye catching feature is the Top Searches This Hour & This Week (when I was there earlier the top search was “p__sy” & one of the top week searches was “marijuana growing”). Certainly gives a hint into what currently interests blog hunters.
The real estate searches I did were lean but that’s to be expected from a new site. Submit your real estate blog to beef up the results.
We wish Tony Conrad & the folks at Sphere great success in their quest to improve blog content search. The company is based in San Francisco.
Rather than our spin on Sphere, we’ll let them tell you why they’re better at the hunt:
What makes us better than other blog search engines?
There are over 30 million blogs, and counting. With so many people reading, writing, and commenting on blogs (where do we find the time?), getting to the high-quality, relevant content on a timely basis is difficult. For a variety of boring, complex technical reasons (such as an exclusive emphasis on freshness, or a simplistic computation of “authority” or the inability to identify spam), other blog search services deliver less-than-satisfying results.
Here’s what you get when you use Sphere:
1 An easy-to-use, intuitive search engine.
2 Great search results, with posts ordered by relevance or time.
3 Customizable time frames (play with our custom range filter, the grokiest feature in our site).
4 Related mainstream media, books, photos and podcasts right next to the results for a complete picture of the conversation.
5 Profiles and stats for each blog listed.
