Wikio

Wikio is basically a search engine with which an individual can find blogs and news. It allows users to submit a website or write a news. Wikio serves as a platform where a user can follow news from a particular website or can look for news available about a particular issue on every website on wikio.

History

Wikio was created by Pierre Chappaz in 2006. Chappaz is also popular for creatin kelkoo.The office of wikio is based in luxemborg and has startup capital of around 1,666,175 euros.

Layout

Grey and white form the background of homepage. White color always support and compliment links over it and use of this color has increased visual appeal of the homepage. Navigation bar on the top of homepage consists of logo in left corner and search bar in the middle with popular news in bottom. Dark blue color of this bar provides contrast that is required by white background of the homepage.

Content

Wikio is basically a search engine for news and blogs. So main importance is given to news on the homepage. First option for looking out for the news is provided in the navigation bar on the to p of homepage. Here you can check your kind of article from the section named news, blog, shopping, videos and top blogs. You can also search for news from keywords. Than major portion of webpage is covered under three sections namely Breaking news, Top videos and Blogs. Main stories under this section are displayed with number of votes they have given by the users. A user is directed towards the particular website by clicking on on these links.

Another interesting feature is tag cloud for Name and important topics. These help users to look out for news and articles by name and a keyword from the tag cloud.

In the bottom of website various sections like about wikio , wikio shopping,  wikio news categories and wikio tools are given which helps users to browse through various areas of website.

Users can vote for a article and comment on it. More number of votes for a particular article or news increases its visibility on the website. RSS feeds on every page helps users to subscribe to the news.

Conclusion

Wikio is a wonderful website for news and blog lovers. It is easy to use and provides a platform to get his hands on news and articles available on the internet in formal websites as well as blogs.

Technorati.Com

The Technorati site can be stated as a blog or feed search engine, which aims to provide users with many options of searching the World Live Web, with great emphasis on LIVE. The user just has to enter an item to search for, and the Technorati engine provides instant results and displays most recent blogs and news posts on the related topics. The site defines itself as a collector, distributor and organizer of the global online conversation. This site had been founded to help bloggers getting success through accommodating, highlighting, and allocating the online global conversation. This is one of the leading blog search engines available today that provides comprehensive source of information on the blogosphere. The site has an index of more than 1.5 million new blog posts in real time and users are introduced to millions of blog and social media content through the same.

The site extends its service through matching the skills of the bloggers and the creators of the media, who want to market their products and join in. They battle ahead with new services like if you have claimed a blog account then you can also specify the tags you want associated with your blog. A user can specify up to 20 tags and experience the thrills of its usability, interface design and industrial design. The option of “Technorati This” allows user to access to Technorati search engine from any website and the user can add the bookmarklet as a bookmark in their browsers. The Technorati Search Engine page opens up and searches the key words that have been highlighted by the users. But this is search is always done in current postings, which means that if the searched terms are hunted again then different results are provided. On the whole bloggers are able to get comprehensive information related to their blogs and news articles instantly.