One stormy day …

I’ve been playing with Swicki by Eurekster, which is in beta test. With Swicki, you create a search engine and focus it on a topic. In theory you can train it yourself, and also inform it by adding user searchers experiences. You put the code for the Swicki engine on your site, and encourage others to do the same. To the extent you can get others to use your search engine on a topic you can get some traffic, ad impressions, and possibly some reputation. While it’s not hard, if you are doing more than one there are quite a number of steps. Like anything about this web2.0 stuff, the entry is easy, but the cultivation and expansion can get intense. I’ve created a few (8 at this point) Swickis in my expert page topics. I added a page on Swickis to Stankevicz.com and put the links there. Gradually the Swickis will be showing up on my lens and HubPages as well.