Searchwiki: A Social Search System
September 5, 2009
A happy quack to the reader in Europe who alerted me to Searchwiki. I navigated to http://www.socialsearch.com and ran some test queries. The content processed by the system comes from a metasearch across Google and Yahoo, among others. The system also indexes Twitter. My query for my current favorite Brazilian musician, Calinhos Brown, returned a number of useful hits. I located sites, videos, and an entry to an international artist database.
This is a revamp of an older service called Swiki.com. The interface features tabs that allow the user to slice the indexed content by Web, Local, Twitter, Images, and Videos. The engine provides an icon that shows where the hit originated, which I find useful. I also like the international flavor of the system.
Results pages include buttons for rating a site, sharing the link via Facebook, and adding an a comment.
Other test queries returned equally useful results with minimal latency. Let me highlight one other query for images: Expert Systems Cogito. Searhwiki returned a system diagram that I chased for days using other search systems. I was delighted with the 42 mostly on point results.
The company was founded in 1997 and you can get more information about the firm from the company’s About page. Looks quite useful and the name change is a very positive step.
Stephen Arnold, September 5, 2009
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