We're Inaugurating the Searchles Discovery Open Widget Platform for Bloggers and Web Publishers

Grab Free, Plug-and-Play Widgets to Enhance Social Media On Your Site

New President, new web tools! The Searchles Discovery platform is the culmination of all the Searchles/Dumbfind technology that has been built up over the years. To kick off the platform we have released in beta a Related Content widget aimed at blogs and content websites looking to make their sites a bit more sticky.

The Related Content widget displays a site's contextually relevant content on article pages to engage readers with options for further exploration. It comes pre-packaged with ads and operates within any site or blog-hosting service (TypePad instructions just added to the widget configuration page!). Think boosting page views and generating incremental revenue with our 50/50 revenue-share split! You can sign up here, grab the code and have the widget up and running in minutes! ("Self-serve", "Grab 'n Go", "Plug-and-Play", "Set it and forget it", "some other phrase that truly captures the simplicity of this process"...)

The search technology behind this widget goes beyond basic tag-matching and text search - no need to even tag your posts. We do the work for you and determine relevancy by spidering your site's content - analyzing relationships between extracted concepts in order to retrieve the most comprehensive set of relevant posts in your site's archive.
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So you get Related Content - but what wonderfulness can you expect out of the open platform over the coming weeks? The open widget platform will be expanding to offer a larger set of social features that leverage the content and on-site activities of and conversations between your users to identify and surface relationships (what has been referred to as the "contextual web") between pieces of content and relationships between like-minded users or groups of users.

A few examples:
* Related Users to a Blog Post
* Related Categories (people, places, topics) to a Forum Post
* Related Forum Posts to an Article
* Related Communities to Blog Post
* Popular Articles
* Related Comments
* Related Anything to Anything (challenge us...)

Depending on what types of content your site or community produces, we can identify and surface via widget the relationships that will make your site stickier, more interactive, and have less dead-ends as your readers explore different topics and engage related readers.

Start off by giving our Related Content widget a go! Of course we'd appreciate any feedback or issues you have regarding the relevance, installation and aesthetics of the widget. Please don't hesitate to contact us!