Reading Digg this morning took me to a page entitled 10 websites you should know about. I had already come across most of them but there were a couple that were new, one of which was Clusty.
Smart readers that you are, I suspect most of you may have already seen Clusty (I presume this is what you were referring to in the pub the other day Ed?). If you haven't it's well worth a look.
Clusty is a search engine that instead of presenting you with all 1.8billion results for windows in a single list, guesses that you may wish to refine your search further and offers you a selection of sub-topics on windows. You can chose software, resources, networks, installations or even, (shock) doors.
I like this. I'm tired of being treated as nothing but traffic by a search engine. I want them to stop working on the assumption that I'm incapable of thinking whilst searching and start getting more interactive with me. I don't think Clusty's the end-game but I do think it's a wonderful step forward.
Webkitchen is Peter Nixey's blog and website.
Originally from the UK, Peter is now in San Francisco and CEO of Clickpass a startup working to make single-sign-on and OpenID both website and consumer friendly.
4 comments:
Staying ahead of the curve. I'm not going to get crushed by google's social reconstruction efforts!
Ed, I'm going to play with clusty as my default search for a while now too - have just installed their firefox search plugin and am looking forward to seeing how it changes things.
I don't think that it has anywhere near enough sites/pages in its index to be a competitor in the big search game area.
I also found it a bit to "left side of the pond". Searching for anything on a local basis was swamped by a mass of US sites, rarely relevant.
Shame really