- Sphere (website)
Sphere is a
blog search engine . The Sphere search engine delivers blog posts based on algorithms that combinesemantic matching withauthority factors to deliver results relevant to the search query.Sphere also organizes bloggers by topic.
The company produces an application called Sphere It! allowing users to seek blog posts related to news articles based on the contents of a particular web page they're viewing. The function is accessed from a browser
navigation bar plug-in. Upon clicking the plug-in button, a semantic analysis is performed on the text within the page and blog posts related to the text of the article are returned. The search engine requires thatJavascript is turned on in the visitor's browser.Sphere has a variety of content distribution venues among major publishers where blog results from Sphere are presented, contextually, within news stories or other content.
Sphere was founded by Tony Conrad, CEO, Martin Remy, CTO, Steve Nieker, CIO and Toni Schneider, Advisor. The company is based in San Francisco, CA.
In April, 2008, Sphere was acquired by
AOL to be operated as a wholly owned subsidiary. [cite web
last = Schachter
first = Ken
title = AOL Buys Sphere
url=http://www.redherring.com/Home/24126
accessdate = 2008-09-18 ]References
ee also
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Bloglines
*Feedster
*Technorati External links
* [http://sphere.com Sphere Home Page]
* [http://www.sphere.com/tools Sphere It!]
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