Comments on: Why is Sequoia Looking Into Associative Browsing Add-on SimilarWeb?

By: Interesting

Interesting — Sat, 17 Oct 2009 03:15:30 +0000

I bet I know why the CEO was visibly uncomfortable when discussing the technology. The most obvious way to determine similar sites is to crawl the web finding correlations between links on the same page, which, although probably quite effective, is also probably not legal because it is a repurposing of editorial content. Maybe Sequoia legal should look into this before forking over the dough.

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SimilarSites Helps You Find Related Sites | Lifehacker Australia — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 22:19:43 +0000

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By: Amir Wa

Amir Wa — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:37:26 +0000

If their technology is that good, it may be the end of web rings, which were not that great to begin with. Good luck.

By: Amir Wa

Amir Wa — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 11:32:53 +0000

The CEO’s Hebrew name surely sounds amusing in English. The meaning:
“Or” – light (the one you see)
“Ofer” – deer (like bambi)

Good luck to SimilarWeb

By: Al

Al — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 09:53:46 +0000

I must say, this is one of the neatest products I have ever bumped into. When you first install it you think exactly like some of the comments in this thread, you think there is no actual need for it and so on. At some point you find out your getting more productive in your surfing and it’s not just that. I had a theory that every person has its own permanent 10 or 20 sites he visits every day. well, that should change, because when you start using similarweb – it is perfectly provides you with a greater field of surfing, shows you websites you didn’t think your should check, even after you find something you wanted, you can always find similar results which most of the time expands your findings.

lol, Or macon offer LOL!

By: Ranjit Padmanabhan

Ranjit Padmanabhan — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 23:09:44 +0000

Why wait? To see articles related to the specific topics you are reading about you can use MashLogic right now. We detect relevant terms on web pages and give you links to related articles on online newspapers, blogs, and Twitter. If you are a Firefox user, you can install a TechCrunch Edition by clicking the MashLogic icon in front of Twitter and Facebook in the top nav bar.

By: Nadav

Nadav — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 18:49:45 +0000

This is an amazing product

As a business developer I find my self using the site every day to find similar companies and services

By: eden

eden — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:58:17 +0000

works great and for a guy that is always looking for recipes to cook its a great tool !

By: Some

Some — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 17:14:00 +0000

Dude, very interesting name

By: Dude

Dude — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:51:02 +0000

I like it. I use the product, and see its value. I believe that this product will pick up significant market share, which means that it is a worthy investment by the VC.

By: Craig Agranoff

Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:25:11 +0000

wish they would look at http://www.worstpizza.com finally!

By: SimilarSites Helps You Find Related Sites [Search Engines] | PingBrain

SimilarSites Helps You Find Related Sites [Search Engines] | PingBrain — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 14:02:58 +0000

[...] Plug in a web site at SimilarSites or by using their Firefox extension SimilarWeb and you’re presented with a list of related web sites. For each site on the list you can give it a thumbs up or thumbs down. While our test searches returned fairly accurate results there were a few items in each search that definitely merited a thumbs down. In addition if you find a site in your search results that you’re interested in you can run a SimilarSites search on that site with a single click. If you’d like to find site suggestions by keyword instead of using an existing site as your source, check out previously reviewed Youlicit to find related web sites by keyword searches. SimilarSites [via TechCrunch] [...]

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Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:50:58 +0000

By: aaa

aaa — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:44:49 +0000

Google will give you tons of crap and too much information. This thing is supposed to take searching and surfing to the next level.
And so far it looks rather interesting..

By: Hmmm

Hmmm — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 13:38:39 +0000

His middle name is Macon, as in “Or Macon Offer”

By: Mark Hanson

Mark Hanson — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:36:38 +0000

Oh come on. Site with miniscule traffic and user base gets (pays?) local reporter to write puff piece on TC in a last desperate ditch for investors.

“Sequoia Capital Israel, we’ve heard, is spending extra time looking into it.” Well now, I don’t suppose you heard that from the founders?

By: bbb

bbb — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:29:18 +0000

I don’t understand what the startup is all about. Do you want to find similar sites about Obama? type ‘Obama’ on Google. Do you want to find video sharing sites such as youtube? type ‘video sharing’ on Google and you will find tousands of reliable similar sites.

By: Or Offer

Or Offer — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 12:10:33 +0000

Thank you for trying our product, it is true that at this time we provide similarity to websites only, however, in the very near future We plans to introduce a feature for just what you are referring to.

Stay tuned

By: aaa

aaa — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:52:56 +0000

After trying the product I must say I’m a little disappointed – it lacks some real time (or close to real time) association. If I’m @ techcrunch reading about a company, I would like some related sites about what I’m reading not only about the website. (in Techcrunch you can see – readwriteweb, digg, google?!!!!..) Those results are the basic layer and it works OK most of the time. But and this is all about product design, I would like to know also similar sites to what I’m reading now – if I’m reading about Obama on NYT I wish to see similar article in Chicago Tribune and not the Chicago Tribune homepage .
Regarding the algorithm, it seems very trivial to mimic…

By: SamiA

SamiA — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 11:52:12 +0000

What’s their business model? Straight sidebar advertising or charging for the traffic they direct (making them biased)?

By: Dan

Dan — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:47:46 +0000

I agree that people usually go back to the same sites over and over again, but that is what makes this product so interesting – It will change how we surf the web, make it more associative and help people manage the great mass of info the web pours on you.
Looking forward to see how they develop it even more.. Good luck!

By: i'm the one

i'm the one — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:18:10 +0000

I’m using this add-on on a daily basis, works great!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:04:00 +0000

I’m confused, how does this relate to Twitter?

By: ronny

ronny — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 10:01:00 +0000

I am familiar with this company, and the technology is really amazing! By mixing unique algorithms, and user inputs, they pinpoint sites which are always of interest and relevance! I’ve discovered many new sites using their tool and became addicted to associative browsing
keep the goodies coming!

By: Jade

Jade — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 08:56:56 +0000

Cool idea

I played with it and it looks like a great product!