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vanity searching on serph

As another blogger on the web, I am always flattered when the rare website or fellow blogger mentions something related to me on that site. I'm sure many bloggers are aware of vanity searching as they try to claim their blogs on sites such as Technorati or Google Blog search. With Serph, you can find out what others are saying about you or anything that you care about. Serph "surfs" (haha) through online social media such as blog search engines, social media websites, social news websites, and social bookmarking websites. It's almost like a Dogpile that searches through these specific sites.

With user-created content driving marketing this days, Serph serves as a pretty effective way to get the information I want about everything that I care about. What's the buzz about Google and rumored phone (which is apparently not happening)? When will Nokia's N95 come out to the United States? How about Sony Ericsson's new Walkman series phone? How is YouTube dealing with those copyright suits? Although the query for "social networking" got pretty mediocre results, search queries for specific companies and other names received good results. I guess like any search engine, you have to be pretty specific on what you are looking for. Otherwise, you're going to get a random and irrelevant website as a top result.

posted by Koh @ 12:48 PM