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OneRiot (re)Launches to the Public

andrewhyde Written on 12th November 2008                                                                                                              3 COMMENTS some text
Andrew Hyde, Startup Enthusiast, Power User of Many Things, Community Organizer

OneRiot (re)Launches to the Public OneRiot , a ’social search engine that finds the pulse of the web’ launched publicly today. The goal of the search engine is to create a realtime digg or reddit, where the most viewed sites on a topic rise to the top of the results. OneRiot is a rebranding of Me.dium.com (archive), which has installed millions of plugins to browsers tracking their viewing habits.

It is built upon the top of the Yahoo! Search BOSS platform.

Testing it out, I referenced a few searches against a real time traffic surge (stories popular on digg or reddit):

Testing out Digg:

Are You Making These 10 CSS Mistakes?
OneRiot search: “10 CSS Mistakes ”
The #1 term is the referenced digg article, but is not listed as popular or trending.

Testing out Reddit:

PNG .vs. JPEG (the most popular story on reddit)
OneRiot search: “PNG .vs. JPEG”
The popular comic was nowhere to be found.

The popular terms feature a specific editor made ‘backstory’ to the subject, making it possible to find your answer without clicking through to any other site. For instance a hot topic “OneRiot Launches ” reveals the ‘backstory’

“Backstory: OneRiot is a social search engine that finds the pulse of the web. Find the news, videos and products that people are talking about right now in relation to any search term. Don’t just find information, find the pulse of the web.”

It is just launched, and has some great easter eggs, such as this meta description:  <meta content=”Get Tobias/Scott H to fill in this lovely keyword desc” name=”keywords”/>.

It will be exciting to see how the startup refines their results, and if those constantly changing results get indexed in other search engines.

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About the author: Andrew Hyde is the Community Director of TechStars, a seed stage funding incubator for startups. He has founded 4 startups including Startup Weekend and VCwear. He lives in the outdoor and startup mecca of Boulder, Colorado, which means he writes when most of The Next Web's readers are asleep. Follow Andrew on Twitter or see his LinkedIn and Blog for more information.

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  2. By tobias on Nov 12, 2008

    Hey Andrew, thanks for the write up. Nice easter egg find – we left that one in just for you ;-)

    It’s useful to compare us to Reddit and Digg… Like them, we let our community set the agenda for “what’s hot” on the site. And we’ve been lucky to build up a community of 2 million people that – looking at our data – seem to be sassy, savvy and into pop culture, news and politics. So our hot topics are more likely to be about Lindsay and Obama rather than jpegs, gifs or css hacks. (but dont worry, Apple fanboy stories do still bubble up ;-)

    We’ve got some cool stuff in the works for the coming weeks… so keep coming back. It’s going to be, ahem, a total riot.

    Tobias :)

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