January 6, 2006

New Forum Discussion Search Tool

Search tools for forum posts come and go. Lycos has its discussion search which focuses on numerous forums across the web, as well as Yahoo Groups and MSN Groups. Google Groups allows you to search Usenet discussions in addition to relatively newly created Google groups.

Over in the Search Engine Watch forums, user backrubrock alerts us to a new discussion search tool called Omgili (an acronym for "Oh My God, I Love It"). From Omgili's About page:

Omgili (Beta) is a search engine designed to index web-based discussion forums. Omgili's unique algorithm analyzes forums not as a simple web page, but as an active discussion with a title, topic and replies.

Posted by Chris Sherman at 6:00 PM | Permalink

October 6, 2005

Searching for a Good Forum

Forums, discussion groups and other online communities can be great sources of information, but the good ones can be hard to find, and time-consuming to monitor. None of the major search engines offer specialized tools to search specifically in forums, so you need to rely on more specialized tools to find what you need. In today's SearchDay article, Finding Treasure in Boards and Forums, I talk about several of these forum-specific search tools and the unique features they offer.

Posted by Chris Sherman at 12:36 PM | Permalink

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