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Technorati
Technorati is a Web log ("blog") research tool which tracks nearly 2 million blogs. Looking for a blog on your subject of interest? Search this blog-only search tool by keyword to find relevant resources. A recent
search for the keyword "marketing" turned up 19,794 fascinating
marketing-focused blogs which this editor needs to explore. Sigh. Other
tools include watchlists of the most popular blogs, the newest blogs, the "buzz" and link trackers which list and count the number of sites linking a particular blog so you can judge just how connected that blog's author is.
| Teoma
Teoma, owned by Ask Jeeves, takes a community-focused approach to search rankings. It uses "Subject-Specific Popularity" to rank the sites in its database. Teoma's theory is that if other sites of the same subject link back to a site, that site must be important within the community. Therefore, it must be important within that topic category, and it will show up as a highly ranked site as a result. Teoma organizes sites into related communities, which you can easily tap into to further focus your search by choosing the "Refine" links that appear to the right of your search results. Finally, Teoma also includes a list of "References," which are sites that it has determined to be community/data portals on a given subject, so you can go right to these resources for further exploration.
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Vivisimo
Vivisimo is not a search engine, but defines itself as a "clustering engine"
that can organize any pile of data into neat little hierarchies and
categories on the fly. The tool that you access at the home page is basically a demo of its enterprise-level software, but don't look a gift horse in the mouth - it's an excellent research resource for marketers. Type in a search term, and Vivisimo will quickly query multiple search engines (LookSmart, Lycos, MSN and Netscape) for their search results. It will then organize the search results into neatly categorized "clusters" which you can explore based on which cluster seems to most closely match what you had in mind. Vivisimo is definitely a time-saving metasearch engine to know.
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