New Blog Search Engine Sphere Launches

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1. Oliver Tse
   

   May 1st, 2006 at 9:30 pm

   I love the custom range widget!!!!

2. Saul Weiner
   

   May 1st, 2006 at 10:05 pm

   The bookmarklet feature is quite nifty. I like tha ability to find similar blog content. As a blogger, I wish they had the blogging tools that technorati has though. Maybe it’s on the way.

   That being said, the ui is pretty slick and easy to use. Not sure why if it’s better than technorati though?

3. Mike Abundo
   

   May 1st, 2006 at 10:22 pm

   Seems FeedBurner had advance knowledge of Sphere. They’ve been offering a “Related posts from Sphere” FeedFlare for a while now.

4. P-
   

   May 1st, 2006 at 10:31 pm

   Nice design and colors to go!!

   P-

5. TheWeb20Dev
   

   May 1st, 2006 at 11:06 pm

   3.75 mil for a blog search engine? Yeesh.

6. Till Nagel
   

   May 1st, 2006 at 11:54 pm

   The date slider is a nice approach, but lacks in usability.

   The date visualization reveals the “histogram” of the search term at a glance. The clean and simple design is appealing.

   But this seems to be a perfect example where AJAX is necessary: The reloading after a new date range selection not only takes some time, but the Flash movie must initialize again. Therefore it is nearly unusable.

   An another improvement would be to use an alpha-slider instead of a simple range slider.

   Overall a good idea (”Use more InfoVis”), but the implementation could be more sophisticated.

7. Jean-Marc
   

   May 2nd, 2006 at 6:05 am

   They’re definately entering a crowded market - both from the dedicated blog search engines like technorati and traditional search engines like Y! and G. It reminds me a bit of the whole hotbot/altavista/excite/etc. search wars of 2000
   That said the implimentation is top notch. The features, design, algorithm, and speed make it far more effective then Technorati IMO.
   What really impressed me the most however was the speed of the site. Most sites slow down to a crawl when they’re featured on TechCrunch, but this one operated nearly as fast as google. Impressive!

8. Jason B.
   

   May 2nd, 2006 at 6:56 am

   “New blog search engine Sphere launched just moments ago”

   Just went there a second ago. Unless my proxy is caching the site, it seems to not be accepting apps still.

9. Easton Ellsworth
   

   May 2nd, 2006 at 7:22 am

   Another contender enters the arena! Another ego feed resource complicates our lives! I’m excited to give Sphere a whirl - thanks for the scoop, Mike.

10. Dan Farber
    

    May 2nd, 2006 at 9:23 am

    Sphere is nicely appointed…the question is does it deliver fast and more relevant results than the competitors…who will soon go about duping Sphere’s feature set…it’s good to see some more inspired competition on the blog search front

11. Juile Williams
    

    May 2nd, 2006 at 9:43 am

    Well worth the wait, looking forward to using Sphere …

12. Klim
    

    May 2nd, 2006 at 10:17 am

    I have been using Sphere since about last October, and I have been impressd. I found that it churned out many good results, much better than the feature filled Technorati (thought I like it still). The new features added with Sphere’s release look good.

13. Search Engines WEB
    

    May 2nd, 2006 at 1:13 pm

    Good idea - but, they certainly need to add many more Blogs and Bloggers.

    Was doing a search for
    Google - and another for - Search Engine Optimization.

    The results were quite sparse.

    Had to submit Matt Cutts blog just a few minutes ago. It wasn’t even there, and its been in the technorati top 100!

14. Pete Cashmore
    

    May 2nd, 2006 at 1:53 pm

    Is there going to be a Sphere API? It looks ripe for mashing!

15. China Law Blog
    

    May 2nd, 2006 at 3:43 pm

    It is pretty cool, but it is clearly going to take time for it to actually build up the number of blogs in its database.

16. kob
    

    May 2nd, 2006 at 4:55 pm

    It’s blog index needs to build out as well as filter out blog spam. This isn’t ready for deep drilling local blog searches.

17. BangkokSteve
    

    May 5th, 2006 at 2:40 am

    If there is to be competition it may be around who has the better, smarter algorhythyms. The new webs will be built on them. Sphere’s first steps towards ‘filtering’ the web are great.

    Forget about the web for a sec and note that individual communities have implicit algorhythyms (criterias) that build communities. Can these be programmed in the virtual world? Over time, organically, yes.

    Perhaps Sphere can take a cue from American Idol — call it — ‘Website Ideal’! But the algorhythym works as it produces a Kelley Clarkson and a whole group of young talented singers.

    It seems to be happening with the ranking thing naturally. Just needs to be centralized I guess.

18. lamisil
    

    May 13th, 2006 at 12:05 am

    then i looked around me, and down at the shag pile rug i was sinking into, and realised that maybe, for him, they’d never been away.

19. lorcet
    

    May 13th, 2006 at 3:32 am

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20. Scott Baio
    

    January 3rd, 2007 at 3:34 am

    I have just uploaded 20,000+ articles to my site that are content heavy and are great for sites with google ads. You can have them all its over 90 mb large, but you need to find the link with in the articles. So that means you have to read the articles in order to find the link I change the location once a day, it may be in the mesothelioma page, debt page, or loans page. Again its over 90 megs large with 20,000 + articles. And you can have them all.

21. Search Engine Optimisation
    

    January 13th, 2007 at 12:21 pm

    Its a great search engine to use but lacking in the number of sites it contains. I’ve tried it with some well established blogs that you’d expect to be there but they are not. Hey ho. I just wish my to anyone that will give Google a run for its money