With that so many social media or social networking sites amass on the Web, it’s not surprising one will come out with an idea to track the conversation. It is Samepoint, a newly launched conversational search engine that want to do well in this field.
Samepoint, launched in early September this month, has introduced itself as a search engine with a different approach from the conventional search engines such as Google or Yahoo!, by allowing its users to track and monitor conversations on the Web. In particular, the site’s domain name Samepoint was derived from its core competency, an unique technology that helped to track conversations across many social media sites, and all the search results typically are the conversations with an uniquely defined point. In other words, all the conversations being tracked are based on a common point, or the same point, as this search engine defined it as the “Discussion Point.”
When users type in and run any keyword search on the Samepoint search bar, the search results shown typically are the unique Web pages found in some popular sites such as Digg, WordPress.com, Twitter, LiveJournal, Pownce, Yelp, just to name a few. Each Web page will have its own set of comments and different kind of sources, click on it will bring users to some other Web pages with the same tags or categories used. It seemed that Samepoint is applying a kind of technology to track the comments posted on these popular social media sites, and from the comments, they’ll discover and identify the common point, or the same point from those comments that made by the comment authors. Thus, this saves users time since many of us are not bother to read the comments that we really do not want to know, and at the same time, Samepoint is trying to scan all the comments for the users and bring them together to a “Single point of Conversation.”
To gain insight into the current conversations on the Web, simply rely on keywords search is not enough. For this purpose, Samepoint has improve its search capabilities to the “username” and the “location” search. Users can type in any blogger name and check her reputation in the blogosphere, or enter the city name and waiting for some localized results about a particular city.
From the search results, I found that while Samepoint is tracking and monitoring the conversations, however the conversations on the Web are becoming wane once Samepoint is compress the comments into a sentence of one, or two words, not more than five.
