tag:,2008:/1/tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.5237- 2008-09-24T12:22:04Z Comments for Swicki Upgrade: Write Your Own Search Results Movable Type 4.1 tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.5237 2007-01-03T10:39:09Z 2007-12-16T23:16:41Z Swicki Upgrade: Write Your Own Search Results Disclosure: Eurekster is a sponsor of Read/WriteWeb Eurekster has quietly rolled out an interesting upgrade to their social search service, Swicki. Now users can contribute their own search answers to a swicki, if they feel they have expertise in the topic. This essentially makes Swicki into a 'read/write' search engine! The owner of the swicki... Richard MacManus http://www.readwriteweb.com Disclosure: Eurekster is a sponsor of Read/WriteWeb

Eurekster has quietly rolled out an interesting upgrade to their social search service, Swicki. Now users can contribute their own search answers to a swicki, if they feel they have expertise in the topic. This essentially makes Swicki into a 'read/write' search engine! The owner of the swicki still needs to approve the answer, so users can't just write any old thing and have it published. Here is an example from R/WW's swicki. I searched for "web office" and this is part of what displays:

]]> Not only can users promote results (see the vote option above), they can write new results. When you click "write your own result" (see the first link directly under the search box), you get a content submission form like this:

It's kind of a mix between blogging and a wiki - and it'll be interesting to see how much take-up it gets.

The general idea is that swickis are a community-driven search engine, so the users help to decide which results display and in what order. This is one of the many 'search 2.0' approaches being explored by multiple startups currently. See Alex Iskold's excellent post The Race to Beat Google for details on other Google wannabes.

]]> tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.5237-comment:41733 Comment from Adrian Keys on 2007-01-03 Adrian Keys http://www.jollyjo.org Maybe this could do very well at the local search level...

Where general search is concerned I would be very concerned about the much bigger sites and the admin required to check submissions...

I wish them all the best.........

]]> 2007-01-03T21:59:57Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.5237-comment:41734 Comment from Sascha Neck on 2007-01-04 Sascha Neck tried it, registered and created my own swicki account, but did'nt get the "vote"-Feature. Do you know, where can I set it?
Thanking you...

]]> 2007-01-04T10:13:06Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.5237-comment:41735 Comment from Matthew Ogston on 2007-01-04 Matthew Ogston http://www.queensspeech.com A similar product, but in its very early stages is yoople.net. I just came across it while browsing the Yahoo Project Gallery.

]]> 2007-01-04T14:41:00Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.5237-comment:41736 Comment from hoolio on 2007-01-20 hoolio I'm in the same boat as Sascha (post #2). Does anyone know how you can get this enhancement on your Swicki?

]]> 2007-01-20T19:31:37Z tag:72.47.210.69,2007://1.5237-comment:41737 Comment from Matthew Ogston on 2007-01-20 Matthew Ogston http://www.queensspeech.com Your account should have been upgraded automatically to the new functions, no?

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