I've talked about
'social search' here
on the Social Software Weblog before. And it seems that search is dead center on many 'social' activities. But Multiply
Inc., accordinging to a
press
release and an email I received from Michael Gersh—co-founder of Multiply, has crafted a social search facility for
its users that focuses on information found in one's own social network.
According to Michael, Multiply Search is: "...the first search-engine that finds content published and written by people you are socially connected to… Results are sorted according to the social proximity index, as well as traditional key-word relevance. Since the searcher knows relationship to the publisher a comfortable forum for discussion exists… Multiply is the first to elegantly integrate the Internet's two killer applications; search and communication…"
How is Multiply these days? Any early adopters still hanging in there? Comments? Feedback?
1. i think it's more likely people will do domain-specific search on sites where the type of data in question is typically found, and that you'll incorporate "social network search" as another way to search there.
possible it may happen via social network sites, but in that case only via dominant ones.
see example of using LinkedIn to search for Jobs on www.SimplyHired.com:
http://blog.simplyhired.com/archives/2005/04/simply_linkedin.php
Posted at 8:04PM on Dec 18th 2005 by Dave McClure