New Blog Search Engine Launched today

2. May 2006, 10:41 UhrNews & IdeasChris

New blog search engine named Sphere launched earlier today. At first glance, it’s well designed and produces relative results. They’ll be competing with some heavy hitters like, Technorati, Google, Yahoo and Icerocket. They look like they’re off to a good start.

Below is a list of features and you can read more about Sphere at Techcrunch and Gigaom.

* custom range histogram;
* sphere it bookmarklet that makes it easy to find blog posts that relate to what you’re reading on the Web;
* top queries this hour/ this week;
* RSS for search results;
* community feedback buttons throughout the site;
* expanded related media verticals including podcasts (Yahoo! API), books (Amazon API), and photos (CNET Webshots API);
* expanded related news articles coverage (over 50 mainstream news sites such as CNN, NYT, ESPN, Fox, USA Today to name a few);
* expanded profiles;
* featured blogs for 12,000+ keyword search terms covering over 500 broad topics including baseball, anime, food, web 2.0, tech news, knitting, culture, etc.; and a brand new back end that scales.