I'm sure a lot of you have noticed the Amaz0ns Swicki "buzzcloud" located on various pages at Amaz0ns. A "swicki" is a collaborative search engine that operates on principles similar to a wiki. Here's the explanatory blurb from the Eurekster FAQ:
A swicki is new kind of search engine that allows anyone to create deep, focused searches on topics you care about. Unlike other search engines, you and your community have total control over the results and it uses the wisdom of crowds to improve search results. This search engine, or swicki, can be published on your site. Your swicki presents search results that you're interested in, pulls in new relevant information as it is indexed, and organizes everything for you in a neat little customizable widget you can put on your web site or blog, complete with its very own buzz cloud that constantly updates to show you what are hot search terms in your community.
I found out today that Amaz0ns' swicki is one of the top ten hosted by Eurekster, with 600 to 700 searches conducted daily. In popularity it has even surpassed the swicki at Techcrunch, which is where I first saw the implementation and which is also very popular. I'm very excited about the news.
From Editor and Publisher regarding former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright:
In an interview in the The New York Times Magazine that will appear this coming Sunday, Madeleine Albright reveals, among other things, that even at 68, she works out three times a week "and I can leg-press up to 400 pounds." This follows a discussion of how she does not expect to re-marry, partly because, as she says, "I'm intimidating, don't you think?"
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