The social search platform Searchles was launched today at http://www.searchles.com: search + circles = Searchles. The site was conceived to help users connect with their friends and share their favorite websites. Searchles is a search platform centered on social groups, not individuals. Searchles will soon be integrated with the Dumbfind search engine so users will influence search results.
"Words and tags have no credibility unless they are backed up by someone you know. We created Searchles to put users in control of their search experience and to let them harness the collective brainpower of their peers," said Chris Seline, CEO and founder of Searchles and the search engine Dumbfind. "I was also tired of getting swamped with emails from friends on every subject that interested them. Now, I will just go to their profile and check out what they are doing."
The developers of Searchles have also achieved full integration with YouTube so when you tag a video from YouTube or Google Video, the video is automatically integrated into the Searchles site. Your friends won’t have to leave the site to watch your favorite videos. They are integrated directly into search results.
Here is a comprehensive list of features you will find at Searchles.com:
- Automatic integration of YouTube and Google Videos
- Personal Flash tag clouds you can install on your MySpace page
- Create groups on any topic to share URL’s with like minded people
- Discuss URL’s with friends
- Save URL’s to Searchles that are accessible from anywhere
- Tag URL’s for easy recall
- Searchles automatically downloads documents and indexes them for maximum searchiness
- Connect with your friends and URL’s will be automatically shared
"I wanted to apply the same values I embraced when creating the search engine Dumbfind.com – efficiency and respect for the user’s intuition – to a social search platform ," said Seline. "We designed Searchles to provide users with a better experience for finding information on the web. You won’t find this on Google, Yahoo, del.icio.us, Furl, or Microsoft’s MSN. Dumbfind has taken another major step towards a fully integrated social searching experience."
Searchles is currently a separate site from the Dumbfind search engine, but the two will be soon integrated so that users will be influencing search relevancy and contributing tags to the tagging engine. Dumbfind is fast at work developing the next generation of search.
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