RawSugar updates its tag-based search and beats the BigCo’s
I spent some time last week with Bill Lazar and Offer Ben-Shachar of the search engine they call "RawSugar."
They showed me an early version of their new blog integration (er, WordPress Widget) as well as their new outline view, which is generated via tags. This engine has come a long way in just a few months since I first wrote about it.
Is it a Google/Yahoo/MSN killer? No. But this could be a game changer for bloggers.
Why? Well, take a look at a search for "Scobleizer" on RawSugar. Look down the left side. Notice the categorization? I think that's awesome! They are the first engine to do this (you have to add your page to their engine and do a little bit of work to make this come out like this).
Anyway, it's not perfect, but RawSugar is demonstrating that search isn't done and that a small company with very few developers can still do things that the big companies can't, or won't, do.
Congrats guys!
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May 1st, 2006 at 6:47 pm
That is neat, Robert. I take it the left nav area is created from your categories? It would be really cool if it could also pick up Technorati tags.
May 1st, 2006 at 10:51 pm
Thanks Robert for the blog -
I am Frank Smadja (http://www.rawsugar.com/links/frank) heading the small engineering team of RawSugar.
Diane, in fact you wish just came true :-)
RawSugar picks up tags in 3 ways: technorati tags, categories tags as well as dc:subject elements in the feed.
Frank
May 2nd, 2006 at 4:30 am
Topic Navigation with an option of subtags is very interesting.
May 2nd, 2006 at 6:05 am
Yeah is was a little hard to figure out but I see the potential, thanks.
Welcome back Robert! (I know you have probably been back for several days but me waaaay too busy)
:)
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:12 am
Is it a Google/Yahoo/MSN killer…
May 2nd, 2006 at 7:37 am
>>Is it a Google/Yahoo/MSN killer…
Not really…..
May 2nd, 2006 at 1:15 pm
Amanda, come on, you know the G/Y/M killer is out there somewhere and it might as well be us ;)
Seriously, if anyone has questions about how RawSugar can integrate with your blog or how it works, please drop me a line at support@rawsugar.com
May 3rd, 2006 at 9:14 pm
Let’s let GYM live. :)
Talking about small development teams and something that’s related - see Simpy (1-dude team).
July 16th, 2006 at 11:01 am
[...] It’s pretty cool, you can tag your posts and especially cool, create hierarchical tags. See what Scoble had to say about it a while back. [...]