Youlicit Invites Us to Rediscover Search - Testing Youlicit's Judgment
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I decided to skip the registration process for now and try out the search engine. Instead of asking for a keyword, Youlicit asks you for a URL:
Well, that suggests an obvious test. What kinds of sites does Youlicit think are like SEO Chat?
Score one for Youlicit. It listed SEOmoz in the number two spot, Google Webmaster Central in the third position, and further down the list it also turns up Search Engine Watch and Aaron Wall's seobook.com. It's not perfect, but it has tools to help you make it better, or at least get you better results.
First, you'll notice a box near the upper right hand side labeled “Related Topics.” You can click on any keyword in that box and turn up more links. When I tried it, I found that there was significant overlap, but a certain number of new sites as well; if I had to guess, I'd say about 50 percent or more of the links turned up on the first page were new. For my query, the URL for SEO Chat, Youlicit matched the following keywords: seo, google, tools, search, ranking, web, marketing, pagerank, webdesign, and optimization. That seems to be a reasonably fair representation.
The box below the one for related topics brings in Youlicit's social aspect. This box highlights related users. Youlicit lists five, along with three keywords under the handle of each one. There's at least one who doesn't share any of the related keywords that Youlicit brought up. That's mcheloor, whose listed keywords include reference, education, and news. I have to wonder about the tie-in. I'll cover other users, and Youlicit's social aspects, later in this article. In the next section, I'm going to discuss all those strange icons around each result.
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