Try it out!
Search for something that interests you, or just click on one of the spotlighted topics.
What do the boxes mean?
Each of the boxes in the map corresponds to a given site, whose name you can see in the top left corner of the box. The box also shows the title of an article that site has recently posted related to the terms you searched for. Click on a box to view more details on the article (in some cases the first few sentences) and a link to it, based on the site’s RSS feed. The closer together two boxes are in the map, the more related those two sites are. For example, let’s say your query is related to something political that’s been discussed a lot in the blogosphere recently. You’ll see in the results that sites with a liberal perspective will tend to cluster together. Conservative sites will not be as close to them, but will be closer to them than sites that don’t have a political view at all, and so on. All the blog relationships are computed automatically. Our algorithm seems to perform well, but it’s not perfect and sometimes it may have to “take a guess” when it doesn’t know much about a particular site, so there may be some queries where some boxes seem misplaced.
Focus your search by using the “Sites Like” field
You can focus your search by specifying a web site or blog that’s representative of the news sources you interested in hearing from. For example, for a hollywood search, focus your search by specifiying your favorite gossip site.
What do the stacks mean?
Sometimes a box has more than one article from that site. You can cycle through the articles in a stack by first clicking on the stack and then using the links.
What are you waiting for?
Please enjoy using this new feature to gather a variety of current opinions on any topic of interest. And also, we hope you’ll jump into some discussions related to the topic, listed on the left side of the home page (or start a new one!) and help everyone get to the crux of any issue.
