Comments on: del.icio.us as a search engine

By: Walter

Walter — Thu, 05 Oct 2006 09:31:03 +0000

Hello, you have great site!

By: Web 2.0 getting boring? — cre8d design blog

Web 2.0 getting boring? — cre8d design blog — Sun, 23 Apr 2006 01:50:29 +0000

[...] Don’t get me wrong – I love and use some of the tools from the Web 2.0 era every day. del.icio.us enables me to file away stuff I might need in future and find helpful tech resources (with better results than Google). I have bursts of using Flickr, Last.fm, co.mments. After trying a tonne of different online feed readers with “cutting edge features”, I went back to Bloglines. I’ve found Basecamp invaluable for keeping organised. I sometimes point people over to PXN8 or Pixoh if they don’t have an image editing program on their computer. [...]

By: Hismethod » Something better than Google?

Hismethod » Something better than Google? — Wed, 01 Mar 2006 14:15:04 +0000

[...] Rachel suggests that del.icio.us might be a better search engine than google. How so? Del.icio.us may not have a high quantity of bookmarked links but it does have quality of links by virtue of the links searched being personally selected. [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 10:13:27 +0000

I would agree with Brian above who says that social bookmarking is the new search. But it’s more than that. Amazon’s “people who bought this book also bought the following…” can be read as “people who think like you”. We all like shortcuts and pointers from our community peers will always have more weight than a commercial search servive like gogl. Recommendations via Social networking always outperform commercial recommendations. But there are dangers to such so-called joined up thinking. As I pointed out on michele’s blog (www.mneylon.com) -who quoted your post today- I always like to remind myself “Do you think everyone else thinks like you do?”. A Healthy thought.

By: Quality Search Results

Quality Search Results — Wed, 15 Feb 2006 00:11:04 +0000

[...] Admittedly I was inspired by this post on Rachel’s blog [...]

By: Chrono Cr@cker

Chrono Cr@cker — Wed, 08 Feb 2006 10:15:43 +0000

Interesting, very interesting. Good food for thought Rachel. Again, yes I will agree with you. In CERTAIN aspects and I repeat certain topics alone, Del.icio.us will serve as a better guide than Google, simply because it is user-driven. You see Link Backing is not done because people like the article. It’s done cause its a source, an affiliate or it’s paid for while that cannot be done @ DIU.

But then, Google is king and will remain for a long long time and Wikipedia is always there for the full factual list!

By: Antony

Antony — Tue, 07 Feb 2006 06:33:38 +0000

This post set me to thinking. Results at http://www.namesatwork.com/blog/2006/02/07/delicious-search/

Thanks as always.