Blog search engine tool Sphere has recently launched, and has recently got
some fresh capital cash in around the $3.75
million mark.
Sphere has an advanced search algorithm that hunts out relevant high quality and timely blog
postings. Sphere scours the web searching out highly relevant new content relating to your search, and filtering out
spam results. Sphere is said to be a faster way to search blogs, with rich added features.
Sphere has a
Featured Blog area in your search, which displays top rated feature blogs for your topic area. They also have a Related
Media button that clicks out to related news, books, podcasts that are powered by Yahoo.
Sphere's tools
include a Sphere It! bookmarklet. This little widget allows users to access related blog content to the site they are
currently browsing. Users can also utilize a custom date range slider bar to filter postings down.
Personally, I am not overly impressed with the tool. It is nice that they provide up to 7 lines of copy from the
related blog in search results, but I did not find that the posting were relavant enough.
Blog searching with Sphere
Reader Comments
(Page 1)2. "Personally, I am not overly impressed with the tool. It is nice that they provide up to 7 lines of copy from the related blog in search results, but I did not find that the posting were relavant enough."
I agree with you and I did some searches there but was completely disappointed. I think that Google blog search is much much better. however, I noticed one good feature of Sphere and that is they index comments. So, I could find some of the comments that I made in different blogs.
Posted at 9:24AM on May 4th 2006 by Razib Ahmed
4. Yes google search is currently more advanced but there is definitely something to be said for a highly focused engine targeting rapidly growing niche. I am mildly excited to see what they can do. Heavy bloggers should definitely not be overlooking Sphere.com.
1. From my understanding, Sphere also raised a small amount of capital before they launched.
Posted at 7:51PM on May 2nd 2006 by Neil Patel