Rubberstamped Goes Meta
I've been invited by Google to test drive the Business Edition of their Custom Search Engine.I had a chat with Nitin Mangtani, Lead Product Manager for Enterprise Search at Google, who talked my through the service and gave me an account to test drive. For those who haven't heard of Google Custom Search, check this out.
I've reviewed the Google's Business Custom Search on the Rubberstamped blog.
The aim is to use this service to add depth to the Rubberstamped search functionality. By adopting a meta directory model, we can include human-selected results from sources with similar editorial policy to our own. We've included Mahalo, Best Of The Web, Yahoo Directory, and Business.com. We'll be adding more sources over time.
We get the best of both worlds - Google's excellent search technology and hand picked result sets.
