We recently have been receiving lots of e-mails about our lack of international focus. These e-mails were from France, Spain, Germany and many other countries concerned that even though they liked our website, they are unable to read and take advantage of the content. They have used tools like Google translate in order to read the pages. Of course this is very inconvenient within a search platform.
To respond to this we have introduced a new way to read search listings. For each search listing, users are now given the ability to translate the listings in over 10 languages. The reason why this is very important for us is we still believe that people can connect based on ideas. If someone has a great idea from England, someone in Argentina should be able to read this idea and share thoughts within their language. This is the whole point of being globally social.
We’ll be adding more international features to our interface in the next few weeks. Please let us know what you think of our translation feature as we will be monitoring comments and enhancing our feature set as we go. For those who have the chance to take advantage of this feature, thank you very much for your patience and we will try to continue to listen and learn from your great feedback.
To use this, simply click the pulldown that is labled “Choose Language”. You should notice the summary change to the language of your choice.
We have made many changes to our website. The most obvious change is the way the search results render. We’ve taken a bold step in trying to organize the social media landscape as we know it today. Samepoint is now categorizing many different types of social networking or social media site’s content.
We’ve added a new feature called “related searches” that is ingrained inside of the search results. These are targeting keywords that are inside of the documents that are pulled back. This allows you to quickly scan what’s inside of a link before going there.
We have designed a search engine to be fast and simple. That is the reason why we have sentiment analysis also ingrained in the search results. When we say “fast” we don’t mean how fast the page draws. When we say fast, we mean how fast can you scan through the result and make decisions on what you need to click on to visit.
After taking well-deserved criticism on our presentation layer, we hope that this interface helps our users look through social media a little better. We are always reaching to make our search engine better and are looking to our users to help us create interfaces that work the best for them.
The folks at Samepoint are always beta testing. There is an unadvertised search option that can be found here:
http://www.samepoint.com/full.php?q=obama
This searches all the top social media sites at once. Very powerful tool for brand managers.
This is simple yet powerful feature. A twitter user asked us to add this. To take advantage of this, do a search.
The box on the left of the results that shows Number of comments and Sources has a link “Show all comments” below it. Click that and you can see all comments at once in a separate window.
This allows searchers to sort comments by the number of comments per point of conversation.
This feature was inspired by a twitter user’s feedback.
Some results are shown as single points of conversation.
That means the comments do not relate to each other.
When this happens, the samepoint engine shows them in this “single comment” view.
