Tuesday, January 23, 2007

Community Searching?

I've been having a look at swiki which is in beta from Eurekster. It looks interesting in that it attemps to take the concept of collaboration into to searching using the 'wisdom of crowds' approach. The idea is that -

"A swicki is a natural extension of personal publishing on the web. Just as you can create a webpage, blog, or podcast, now you can publish a community powered search engine, tailored to produce only the targeted search results that you and your community want! A swicki shows a buzz cloud of what is hot in your community and makes it easy to find the best content, news and info on the web."

I've added a swiki to the Learning Lab at http://learninglab.swan.ac.uk/swiki. Have a play and share your comments.

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