Introduction
Web 2.0 is all about blogs, microblogs, social media sites, social networking sites, etc. Important as these are, there is also a huge amount of information in older formats such as forums, discussion groups, shopping comparison sites and more. These Web 1.0 resources is not as well structured nor are they easily searchable.
Omgili is a niche search engine that focusses on these information resources and covers an important segment of the web. The about us page says it best
- 'Omgili is a specialized search engine that focuses on "many to many" user generated content platforms, such as, Forums, Discussion groups, Mailing lists, answer boards and others.'
- 'Omgili is a crawler based, vertical search engine that scans millions of online discussions worldwide in over 100,000 boards, forums and other discussion based resources.'
The menu shown at the top consists of the following options
- Discussions Search - Search discussions containing search terms entered in the search box.
- Reviews - Search reviews for specific products entered in the search box.
- Stream - See updates on discussions as they are discovered like a Twitter search stream.
- Buzzzz - See the top discussions happening under categories such as videos, news, topics, movies and products.
- Google@Omgili - Get enhanced Google search results with the result urls linked to discussions mentioning those urls.
- Q&A - See questions asked in discussions containing the search terms mentioned.
- Health - Omgili pulls health topics from www.imedix.com using the search terms entered.
- Directory - The various discussion forums are categorized with categories available as RSS Feeds to receive updates.
- Categories - This menu gives a popup for quick selection of a particular category.
We will start by looking at the first of the menu options Omgili forum search a.k.a. Discussions Search in our next post using a job search example.
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