Tuesday, November 15, 2005
Review Roundup from PC Magazine: Share and Play Tag on the New Web Playground:
"Somewhere between Web and desktop search engines lies a new breed of 'community' search engines—sites where users share among themselves the bookmarks they've created and content they've encountered. Such sites can cut through the clutter that a typical Google search might return by adding the human element. After all, communities of knowledgeable, interested people can identify relevant sites with greater accuracy than a search engine. Plus, you can leverage the work already done by others and build on that base rather than repeat it.
There is no set formula for this emerging type of site, and it's too soon to know which sites (if any) will gain the traction needed to make them widely useful. Because these are community-dependent, survivors will be the few that build significant communities the fastest. Still, the concept is intriguing, so we tried out five, each with a dramatically different spin—and mixed results..."
"Somewhere between Web and desktop search engines lies a new breed of 'community' search engines—sites where users share among themselves the bookmarks they've created and content they've encountered. Such sites can cut through the clutter that a typical Google search might return by adding the human element. After all, communities of knowledgeable, interested people can identify relevant sites with greater accuracy than a search engine. Plus, you can leverage the work already done by others and build on that base rather than repeat it.
There is no set formula for this emerging type of site, and it's too soon to know which sites (if any) will gain the traction needed to make them widely useful. Because these are community-dependent, survivors will be the few that build significant communities the fastest. Still, the concept is intriguing, so we tried out five, each with a dramatically different spin—and mixed results..."
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