Artiklz is debuting its conversation search engine to the public today, and it’s definitely worth taking a look. What the service does is aggregate comments from the more popular blogging and commenting platforms as well as a number of services including Digg, Reddit, FriendFeed, Delicious, etc. and make them available through a single search engine.
This is very similar to what companies like Crunchies finalist BackType and also uberVU are all about, and I definitely see the need for this type of service: regardless of one’s interests or line of work, dedicated comment search engines make it easy for users to find out what the content and tone of conversations across social media really are. I like the fact that you no longer need to visit every web service that has comments separately in order to find out what’s being said, but that you can go to a single place, do a simple search and find out.
Artiklz also helps center discussion about your blog posts in one location, enabling you to get notifications by e-mail, SMS, IM or a web interface, whenever a new comment is made about your writings on any given service. You can also add a badge to your blog that gives your readers the option to be notified when you post a new article, or when somebody leaves a comment on a given post, and you can even track a specific individual’s comments.
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Oh the first time I know this site. Will dig down into it now. Thanks for sharing.
“dig down” a site has a whole new meaning now!
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These guys should use their own search engine to search for some articles on branding and ui design.
I’m afraid I will have to agree. While I don’t like to criticize people’s work, when I searched for Obama, and this is what I got
http://artiklz.com/search?sear.....tegory_id=
I could not make any sense of these results … and hence was unusable for me
No kidding. It actually took me a moment to figure out what the name was about. It’s like trying to decipher a weird license plate. I think it’s a bit too much of a stretch for the web 2.0 naming convention.
Oh the first time I know this site. Check it now and will have more insights here soon. Thanks for introducing.
Interesting. I searched our company name and got a grand total of 8 results including an article from 2007. Our own social media monitoring tool captured about 22,000 results…
This stuff isn’t that easy and those evaluating it should be a little more critical, IMHO. We’ve spent the last year amassing a database of over 1 billion conversations from virtually all social sources with up to 30 fields of meta data for each. And then building a comprehensive search capability including analysis tools (sifting through millions of conversations about a major brand requires them)…
A search for “social media” was completely unusable and yielded very old results. I had better luck going to backtype, friendfeed, or even a search aggregator like whostalkin.com
I can see the need the space for a search engine like this, but the layout of the search results data is very poor and tiring to decipher that you just want to click away.
I know this is a beta, but they must have spent a lot of money getting this off the ground and I would have thought they could have made it look and work a whole lot better for the beta.
… hm… the IDEA is cool… i dont think it works THAT well though
Wow..how much did they pay you guys to do this article? That’s horrible.
Sounds like something written for Robert Scoble, so he can track where he’s being talked about and jump in on the most interesting conversations. But I’ll still check it out.