With Quarkbase, people now can know everything about a site. In particular, Quarkbase is a mashup that went live in August this year, designed with a simple interface and focus on creating a tool that will help move the mashup technology from a cool Web developer hobby to something that is valuable to the end users. Running a simple search on any URL will return a lot of information of a particular site from which it gathered the site’s information using APIs or feeds.
Quarkbase is a simple site yet a typical example how it can use the power of mashup to create something useful when we want to know everything about a site. Users can enter any domain name and it will gather information such as a brief summary of the site, ranking, whois, social popularity, traffic, as well as some imports from Technorati and Twitter. Currently, users can only search the information about a domain, but not the subdomain as Quarkbase has promised to the users it will work on it in order to make the subdomain information visible on the site.
I believe users will find this Quarkbase as powerful, enticing, and sufficiently easy to use (we just need to type the domain name we want to search). No doubt, Quarkbase’s popularity on the Web will depend on its ability in gathering as many sources of input as possible, albeit that it is now a mashup of over 30 data sources.
