What's the big deal about Sphere? 1

Posted by Kurt Schrader Wed, 09 Nov 2005 00:54:00 GMT

I keep reading about the Sphere beta on a number of different feeds that I read. Now, I'm not on the beta test for Sphere, but is it so radically different from what's already available that it deserves all of the buzz it's generating? This post today on Data Mining simply says that we can now search with subhour times. So basically Sphere has caught up with any number of other blog search engines already available. From what I've seen Sphere looks pretty, but it doesn't look revolutionary. From my point of view, just being better than the other currently available blog search engines out there isn't going to be enough, especially after Yahoo integrates blogs into their normal search results.

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    Matthew Hurst about 13 hours later:
    Kurt, I believe there are a number of factors that bring attention to Sphere: * next generation blog search engine - it has the timing to learn from what has been done before. This, as you point out, doesn't mean that it is doing thing better or right. * people - there are a number of people involved in the project that have had experience in blogging for a while. I agree with your basic point - that Sphere has yet to show any features or qualities that really leapfrog what is currently available.
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