Searchles Launches Conversation-Tracking Tag Cloud on Washingtonpost.com

The Buzz Map tag cloud placed on Washingtonpost.com's Live Discussion pages is a quick snapshot into the most buzzed about topics within the national news site's comment sections, forum posts and live discussions. This dynamic social tag cloud is designed to increase user interaction as readers can now navigate through and engage in the active online conversations by topic. The rich social layer of content - or the on-site "micro-blogging", if you will - generated by the Washingtonpost.com reader-community is now surfaced through this trending tag cloud and conversational topic-search powered by Searchles!


The tags link through to a corresponding search results page that aggregates the most recent site-wide user comments, discussion group posts or live discussion feeds where users can also quickly jump to the source content that sparked the conversation or the user profile behind an interesting comment.

This new social feature for Washingtonpost.com is powered by Searchles Discovery technology which crawls and analyzes both published and user-generated site content to establish connections between related users within the community, related online conversations to a particular topic or related content recommendations to an article - to cite a few examples. Searchles Discovery currently offers both tailored social solutions for large media and a free contextual Related Content widget for publishers of any size from the Open Widget Platform. If you think Searchles Discovery would offer a valuable solution for your site - check out the info page or contact us!