Similar Sites Is Darn Useful
June 8, 2009
A happy quack to the reader who alerted me to SimilarSites.com. I enter a url that interests me and the system generates a list of similar sites. Try it here. The service is free and works quite well. There is a service called SimilarSites.net, but I am describing the Dot Com version. The company was founded in 2007 by “Web veterans” and I will poke into the outfit because I find the service helpful and not annoying. Who wants three clicks to execute a task? Not me. The company offers a browser add on which is described in somewhat wacky Web words:
an intelligent browser Add-On that dynamically provides easy access to relevant websites and content. Wherever you go on the web, our technology will work behind the scenes to discover valuable common content and present it to you in a useful way. Built on sophisticated algorithms that scout the internet and taking into account user opinions. It matters not if the user is looking at a major portal or a website of some unknown artist, SimilarWeb provides accurate results for rare sites as well as highly ranked ones, the technology excels in the long tail of the web.
Verbiage aside, worth a look. I put this puppy on my quick links list, moving Similicio.us and Tagomatic.com to my bookmarks. The tagline is particularly good for SimilarSites.com: “Discover without searching.” Dead on in my opinion.
Stephen Arnold, June 8, 2009
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Also try http://www.xmarks.com/ and http://similar-site.com. These are the two best “similar site” sites that I’ve used thus far.
Nice to see your thoughts about similarsites.com, a very useful website. Can you also review similarsites.net?
Thanks for the kind words about our site, I wanted to let you know we have a new site that just went live, http://www.topsite.com, take a look and let me know what you think.