11 Dec 2008
Kosmix - a ‘browse engine’
I tweeted yesterday about Kosmix : Taking a look at http://www.kosmix.com/ - the new Google? Purleeesss. Describes itself as “beta-ish”, which is quite charming.
First result of this was a polite tweet back from a Kosmix staffer; the second time in a day that this has happened to me (the other instance was Yuuguu). Clearly monitoring and responding to Twitter references is now becoming standard for forward-looking companies, as it should be.
The New Statesman published a good review of Kosmix yesterday: “it’s like the portals of old remade for a Web 2.0 age.”
Anyway, I’ve had a bit more of a play with Kosmix now, and searching (sorry, browsing!) within topics where I’m familiar with Google results and other methods of search did deliver a few unexpected and useful results. As Iain Simons says in his review for NS, the execution is elegant, and it does feel mature already in a way that Cuil didn’t when it hit the market a few months ago.
