Sphere a brand new blog search open widely to public yesterday. Sphere normally categories into three major part like blog search results, featured blogs, and related media. meanwhile, Sphere also include a nice features stated below:-
- custom range histogram;
- a "sphere it" bookmarklet
- top queries this hour/ this week;
- RSS
- expanded related news articles coverage
You can review more information on features explanation on TechChurch.
TechChrunch also stated that the design is developed by adaptive path. See their essay on the project here.
Sphere is totally differ from technoarti which it has iits own algorithm to determine to calculate the popularity of the blogs. Calculation is based on ithree major factor like links in/out of blog; meta data around the blog (average length of posts, post frequency, etc; and a semantic analysis of the posts themselves).
Here is some comment that give by Micro persuasion:-
However, it's missing several key features - authority rankings, mobile search, tag search and the ability to sort through results in different languages. Worst of all there's no link search. So I can't tell if someone is linking to me using the phrase "this guy" or "Steve says." This last point is unacceptable. (Update: It has link search. You need to use the phrase "SphereIt:")
Still, I like Sphere a lot and I am wholeheartedly recommending it. It's drop dead simple to use and it has some nice features. If it adds a few more it can be a serious contender to T'Rati. The key here is going to be speed. How fast is Sphere vs. T'Rati. I see no way to ping them, which is not a good sign. We should run it through some benchmarks.
For me, i agree with Micro Persuasion comment on sphere. Sphere still having need improvement. perhaps, in future, we can see more features coming out from sphere
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