Thursday, January 18, 2007

Searchles Rolls-Out the Wise and Wicked Push-me/Pull-me Widget – If You’re Reading This at Searchles, You Know About it First!

Today we’re quietly launching what we think is a very cool widget. If you have a blog or website, our widget helps keeps web traffic where it should be – on your site. Tomorrow we tell the masses about it.

For all things worth praising, one of the big complaints we’ve heard about social sites is that they marginalize original content by disconnecting the audience dialogue from the source. We thought we could fix that with a viral widget that would enhance the interactive experience for your site visitors and help attract new visitors to your site at the same time.

Some of the key features:

• With the widget installed, your visitors never leave your website to bookmark, tag, share, group or comment on content. (Requires user registration at Searchles)
• Your content, tags and comments are automatically “pushed” into Searchles just as tags and comments at Searchles itself are automatically “pulled” back to your site – viewable instantly in both places.
• Users can receive notifications to automatically know when another user has replied to their comments and are prompted to return.
• By scrolling over the tags within the widget, Searchles automatically recommends related content at your site and elsewhere on the web. (No registration required)
• Our widget doesn’t hog valuable site real estate – it integrates very unobtrusively at the bottom of the page, collapsing and expanding within your site as the user interacts.
• It’s also easy to install with just one line of code, and easy and intuitive to use.

See that little gray box at the end of this post? That’s the widget. You can take it for a test drive here, or you can be one of the first to get the Searchles widget and take it for a test drive on your own site. Whether you test drive it here or install it on your own site, tell us about it here. What do you like and how can we improve it? More innovations coming soon…….

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