Swicki is a living search engine that can be tailored to your blog, site or community. The setup is very easy to do, it only takes three simple actions and you’re in. First you customize your swicky, then you train it and lastly, you add it to your site.
That looks like this:
You can choose for a ‘narrow’ version too, to fit it in the sidebar of your blog or site, and there’s also a wide version that could be placed at the top or bottom of the page.
A swicki is a natural extension of personal publishing on the web. Just as you can create a webpage, blog, or podcast, now you can publish a community powered search engine, tailored to produce only the targeted search results that you and your community want!
A swicki shows a buzz cloud of what is hot in your community and makes it easy to find the best content, news and info on the web.
I’m not quite sure about the possibilities this swicki thing has when it comes to a decent site search, but I’ll give it a try. If it makes sense and returns what I want to search for, I’ll probably integrate it.
Get your own swicki, right here.
UPDATE: The swicki search isn’t up to date at all. I hope it’ll change because of its activation on this site, but as for now, it still lists files from the previous blog that have been removed over a month ago… Their cache really needs an update.
Hans Mestrum
February 27, 2006 at 9:04 pm
I think updating also depends on how many people use YOUR swicki or the words related to your swicki. I had one on my homepage for a while and saw that it changed after people using it. So it is community poowered as it says. Not just counting your words. I think.
Mines are here: http://www.hansonexperience.com/context/2006/02/swickis.html