Yesterday Dave blogged about Memetracker search and how someone should build a meta search engine with all the Memetrackers indexed.
I have at least part of the equation because Tailrank already provides search. We even have an RSS feed for our search results.
It’s an interesting approach to search since the goal of most major search engines like Google or Technorati is to sort through all the pages and then sort by ranking.
Memetracker search takes a different approach in that we don’t index anything which we don’t find worthy. This way if you were to add a Tailrank search feed to your aggregator you’d get less results but they’d be higher quality.
Now the question is whether people will build a product like Talkdigger for the Memetracker space.
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March 9, 2006 at 12:10 pm
Hi Kevin!
Interesting point here! What could be interesting is something like Talk Digger, or any other meta-services, that would aggregate all these Memetrackesr, check the redundant stories, etc, so that he could rank them to know what are the best stories of the best. What is interesting is that the results would be even more accurate because it would be powered by many different engines/algorithms. So, if one algorithm doesn’t score well for a specific article, it is not really a problem because the strength of the meta-memetracker is that it would prioritize the set of results composed by the intersections of the sets of results returned by each memetracker.
Interesting idea :)
Take care and keep up the good work with TailRank!
Salutations,
Fred
March 9, 2006 at 10:56 pm
I’m interested in aggregation, but the plain RSS is unstructured and does not show the relationships between the articles and posts. Do we need a new microformat for that?
Metasearch would be good, but the other guys would need to catch up with Tailrank and offer a search API/feed.
March 10, 2006 at 1:57 pm
Well… they better get used to playing catchup with Tailrank :)