findth.at (socially powered search)
For the past month or so I’ve been working on a little idea I had. I thought it would we cool if you could search twitter, delicious and google all at the same time. So, I made findth.at.
What does it do exactly? Well, the fine points are obviously supar sekrit (although I’m open to cash offers if you want to buy the software!), but basically it works like this:
- We grab the search results from google
- We search for bookmarks tagged with your search results on delicious
- We search for tweets containing links on twitter
- We mash them all together
- You get the results that the internet are currently talking about!
I have been asked “what’s your pitch?”. To be honest, I don’t have one. I’d love to take findth.at further (to the point of it being my full time job if possible), but that’s not why I made it. I use it as my primary search engine now over google – it’s a lot better at keeping up with breaking news, generally finds cooler stuff and well, I made it so I’m a bit biased.
To quote the about page “…but we think people are just a little better” – and they are. Google might have all these really clever ways of finding stuff, but people only tweet about or bookmark stuff that they think is relevant. We just leverage all their big juicy brains.
Anyway, after two blog entries in two days I’m feeling a little giddy, so go over and have a look at findth.at (ta!). And please get in touch if you want to advertise on there, or if you’re a web 2.0 bigwig and want to talk about how we can take findth.at further.