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Re: delicious search

JaeSung Ro — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:15:41 -0000

Hi, Fred

I think the offering on our public beta is aligning with your thoughts here.

With a year long development, Tusavvy has built a new social search engine by using socially annotated web data like public bookmarks and others. It provides concise results using a lexicon built by tags, and rankings selected by social factors like the user's accumulated interests.

I believe you might be interested in exploring it.

It would be an honor if you could stop by.
http://www.tusavvy.com

For more info.
You might want to visit our 'about' page as well.
http://about.tusavvy.com

Best Regards,
JaeSung Ro | Founder | zSoup

Re: delicious search

50m — Thu, 14 Feb 2008 02:45:59 -0000

People save their bookmarks online (in sites like del.icio.us) and post links to their favorite sites (in sites like digg and reddit). In a way, people that use these sites act as smart agents and add to these big databases the most liked sites on the web. No company could compete with the man hours people put in saving and tagging their bookmarks. No algorithm could calculate site quality better than humans.
http://www.50matches.com is in this search evolution junction. We crawl only sites that were bookmarked , "dugg" or "reddit'ed" by combining human indexing with machine indexing.
Check us out :)

Re: delicious search

Maggy Young — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:54:37 -0000

Agree with Bonforte. Hit nail on head here. Delicious can beat Google when you are looking for advice with something. You will get more directly useful sites, not just a stream of links to the topic. You get the bookmarked sites & cut out the dross.

Re: delicious search

fredwilson — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 16:06:01 -0000

Can't run that query

Re: delicious search

pwb — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:55:40 -0000

So was Delicious below Ask.com the month before?

Re: delicious search

fredwilson — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 15:19:01 -0000

Bonforte

Me too. Joshua is a genius

Fred

Re: delicious search

JT — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:39:39 -0000

This is a little off topic, but have you guys seen this new search engine ManagedQ? I read about it on AltSearchEngines a week ago, and it really kicks ass. There's probably a bit too young to contribute much traffic to the above list, but unlike Powerset, Hakia and the other new guys they have a compelling pruduct you can try right now. I'd recommend taking a look.

Re: delicious search

ifyoumakeit — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:15:18 -0000

While it's great that you got such traffic from Delicious (I can only dream), it seems premature to claim that the service is now a major traffic driver. If this is indeed week-over-week data, then last week you only saw 270 referrals, which places it below Microsoft, Ask and AOL. Can you share more details?

Re: delicious search

scottfromshanghai — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 20:01:24 -0000

Very interesting although it clearly shows Google demolishes everyone (even if you add yahoo, Microsoft and del.icio.us!). Huge week on week growth at delicious (+791%) did anything specific happen to cause such a spike?

Re: delicious search

fredwilson — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:37:02 -0000

Agreed

Re: delicious search

fredwilson — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 19:37:01 -0000

I think its clear, in hindsight, that delicious would have been better off as an independent company

Fred

Re: delicious search

John John — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:54:26 -0000

Delicious has so much potential to be a major player in search (Mahalo on steroids?). They're let down by their poor interface and the lack of attention paid to their interface. Yet another yahoo acquisition left twisting in the wind....

Re: delicious search

Kamlesh P. — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:31:52 -0000

Long time reader, but first post. The one thing that I don't think you have mentioned is that from your chart, Google Search (both Web and Image) account for more hits than the other searches put together. In light of that fact, does it matter whether Delicious would be better off separately or being part of Yahoo!?

Re: delicious search

zyzhu — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 18:08:17 -0000

This is very interesting. I am curious where you get the data.

Re: delicious search

mike hoover — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:52:28 -0000

yes, delicious is a full blown recommendation system. the most valuable out there, in my opinion. i wrote about it here:

http://www.michaelhoover.or...

Re: delicious search

Scott Yates — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 16:10:55 -0000

Interesting that Ask.com is sucking so bad in spite of (because of?) spending all that money on advertising. I wonder if they'll have a spot in the Super Bowl.