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2008-09-18 | English
UTRECHT – By launching a complete new website, the Dutch Internet startup Scoutle.com, can now help the everyday internet-user find an interesting blog without having to search for it. Using search engines is no longer necessary. At Scoutle.com the searching itself is left to personal webcrawlers called Scouts.
At Scoutle.com, users activate a personal Scout that will ‘walk’ across the Internet to find other interesting Scouts. By storing and comparing all ‘meetings’, the Scouts use different algorithms to show their users only the most interesting blogs. With the new version of Scoutle, the Scouts also exchange their results so that every single blog can be ranked continuously and presented in many different ways to both users as well as non-users.
According to owner and developer Godfried van Loo, searching the Internet with a search engine is a serious waste of time and knowledge: ”Even if you know exactly what you’re looking for, you can end up spending a lot of time on comparing and judging what you come across before you find what you’re looking for. When you finally do find it, there are many ways of sharing this information with other web-users. However, everything you do not deem relevant will turn up again in your future searches; just as it will for other web-users searching for the same information.”
Scoutle.com offers bloggers the possibility of making their blog more accessible for specifically those internet-users that are likely to be interested. By continuously ranking and connecting blogs, Scoutle automatically removes irrelevant blogs.
With this new version, Scoutle launches over ten new services all at once. These services support and automate searching and promoting a blog. Next to using the classic features like Networks, Recommendations and Friends to find blogs, they can now also be found by comparing geographical similarities with the ‘Blog Areas’ tool. Also, blogs with similar subjects are automatically connected with the ‘Blog Match’ service.
All results of all Scouts are open to all, even non-users, using dynamic guides and filters. Scouts search and sort blogs in order to make it possible for users and visitors to easily find and share results. Scoutle users can keep in contact with other users and with their personal Scout using Twitter, FriendFeed, email, RSS or via a mobile version.
With the new version, Scoutle.com aims to create a rapidly growing international community of active bloggers in which they are automatically linked to all relevant blogs and all the time consuming work is left up to the Scouts.
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