Surchur Official Blog http://blog.surchur.com the dashboard to right now. Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:26:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 Trending Topics is so Passe: Why the Real Time Board is the Evolution in Real Time Discovery http://blog.surchur.com/2010/02/trending-topics-is-so-passe-why-the-real-time-board-is-the-evolution-in-real-time-discovery/ http://blog.surchur.com/2010/02/trending-topics-is-so-passe-why-the-real-time-board-is-the-evolution-in-real-time-discovery/#comments Wed, 17 Feb 2010 19:26:09 +0000 admin http://blog.surchur.com/?p=356 Most active Web users have come across such tools as Google Trends, Twitter Trending Topics, Yahoo Buzz or Bing xRank.  These tools are great for helping users understand what is being searched for.  However, there is a new approach that helps people get more breadth - meaning what is popular on the Internet more widely - as well as great depth - meaning at a glance you can quickly see why a topic is popular and what people are saying across the web.  The Real Time Board at surchur.com is a tool that uses this new approach to help users quickly sift through trends on the web and find what interests them most.

The Surchur Real Time Board

The Surchur Real Time Board

The Real Time Board or RTB differs from the other sources in a few key ways.

First, the RTB is an aggregate view of the other sources. Meaning we take what’s showing up right now on the other sites and bring them all into a single list.  The different sources have different methodologies that fit their particular approach, some focus on rising searches, others on outright total search volume, and some like twitter focus on what people are micro-blogging about.  Surchur combines them all to provide a complete view of what’s being talked about making it “the one” source for popular terms.

Another way in which the RTB differs from the others is our ranking approach.  We take the popular searches and then score them in three areas: surchur surches, blogosphere mentions, and twitter mentions.  Then we rank them according to the combined score across these three areas.  The result is a list that has the broadest possible view of what’s popular. In addition, it helps you understand just how popular a topic is relative to another topic.

Finally, our RTB differs with a great preview.  Simply hover over a term on our homepage and you’ll see a quick summary of the images, blogs and social web mentions in a basic preview screen.  That way you may never have to leave the home page if all you are looking for is a quick summary of several popular terms.

The Real Time Board is changing how the Web looks at what’s popular.  We invite you to check it out on a regular basis - we doubt you’ll find a better place for discovering the currently popular.

The Surchur Team

]]> http://blog.surchur.com/2010/02/trending-topics-is-so-passe-why-the-real-time-board-is-the-evolution-in-real-time-discovery/feed/ An even better surch http://blog.surchur.com/2010/01/an-even-better-surch/ http://blog.surchur.com/2010/01/an-even-better-surch/#comments Tue, 19 Jan 2010 14:56:41 +0000 monika http://blog.surchur.com/?p=351 As promised not so long ago, today we launched our new updates: a minor facelift and an improved algorithm.

What changed? Just a few to enumerate:

  • now it’s even easier to influence the results on the popular tab
  • voting up or down and commenting is simple whether logged in as a user or anonymously with a captcha
  • we’ve removed some of our sources and replaced them with even better ones
  • after opening any URL you don’t have to go back to surchur in order to share your opinions regarding it, you can easily vote and comment on our brand new toolbar
  • the related surches feature is now improved giving you better suggestions for other searches you may be interested in

If you are looking for your fav celeb, movie releases, politicians, sports news, local updates …you name it - we are the best spot for learning about the “right now” world.

Feel free to try the newly juiced up surchur and send your feedback to marketing [at] surchur [dot] com

Veni, vidi, surch!

]]> http://blog.surchur.com/2010/01/an-even-better-surch/feed/ Sum-up vs. forecast http://blog.surchur.com/2009/12/sum-up-vs-forecast/ http://blog.surchur.com/2009/12/sum-up-vs-forecast/#comments Wed, 23 Dec 2009 18:24:50 +0000 monika http://blog.surchur.com/?p=347 We have grown in almost two years (1 year and 7 months actually ;) ) as others in 3 years or even more. We’ve come a long way since our launch in 2008, but the best is yet to come. Be prepared to be once again surchurfied in January 2010 as we launch our new features and updates.

Thank you for your opinions and suggestions, thank you for being such an active community, thank you for your interest in us. Here’s to a good surch!

We wish everyone Happy Holidays and a surchurific New Year!

The Surchur Team

]]> http://blog.surchur.com/2009/12/sum-up-vs-forecast/feed/ Don’t get brand sabotaged http://blog.surchur.com/2009/11/dont-get-brand-sabotaged/ http://blog.surchur.com/2009/11/dont-get-brand-sabotaged/#comments Wed, 25 Nov 2009 21:22:41 +0000 monika http://blog.surchur.com/?p=340 “Monitoring your brand online can be a serious effort - the number of channels and outlets you need to track, the anonymity of potential brand attackers or even promoters, the speed with which fallacious information can spread and ruin the value of what would have once been a carefully planned and thoughtful brand approach…” you can read Todd Hogan’s article on brand monitoring here.

]]> http://blog.surchur.com/2009/11/dont-get-brand-sabotaged/feed/ surchur update - thanks to our users and announcing the new social platform http://blog.surchur.com/2009/10/thanks-to-our-users-and-announcing-the-new-social-platform/ http://blog.surchur.com/2009/10/thanks-to-our-users-and-announcing-the-new-social-platform/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 17:41:05 +0000 admin http://blog.surchur.com/?p=332 We’re excited with this blog entry to announce the most ambitious update to surchur in our history - we are moving to a massively social platform that will allow our users to contribute to our results and will be much more complete in scanning the web for what is popular based on information from tweets, digg and other socially driven sites. The new “popular” tab on our search pages will give you an up to date view of the hottest pages on the Internet and will allow users to contribute by voting up and commenting on the most popular URLs and topics on the web.

This update also comes with the great news that our growth has been astounding over the past several months- we have more than doubled every month since we launched the first of our most recent updates, the surchmeter, in May and helping us to quickly shoot past the million visitor per month mark and well on our way to 2 million.

We will continue to update you with additional news about the new features over the coming days and weeks, but for now we’d like to thank all of our users for the joy of having our website valued as a real time search and discover destination. And finally, we’d encourage you to try out the newest updates to surchur by visiting the homepage and doing a surch of your own or visiting one of the hottopics or catchingfire links.

Thank you once again to everyone for helping grow our community,

Todd Hogan
Founder

]]> http://blog.surchur.com/2009/10/thanks-to-our-users-and-announcing-the-new-social-platform/feed/ Surchur: Beyond Real-Time Search To Real-Time Discovery http://blog.surchur.com/2009/09/surchur-beyond-real-time-search-to-real-time-discovery/ http://blog.surchur.com/2009/09/surchur-beyond-real-time-search-to-real-time-discovery/#comments Tue, 01 Sep 2009 13:10:11 +0000 monika http://blog.surchur.com/?p=326 Acknowledge the great know-how of surchur in another top-notch review, this time from Matt McGee himself http://bit.ly/qO1xu

]]> http://blog.surchur.com/2009/09/surchur-beyond-real-time-search-to-real-time-discovery/feed/ Surching with Surchur http://blog.surchur.com/2009/08/surching-with-surchur/ http://blog.surchur.com/2009/08/surching-with-surchur/#comments Wed, 26 Aug 2009 13:01:44 +0000 monika http://blog.surchur.com/?p=320 We’ve been added to the students’ searching toolkit. Check out this review bit.ly/2smVes.

The Surchur Team

]]> http://blog.surchur.com/2009/08/surching-with-surchur/feed/ THE Real Time Board in just a few words… http://blog.surchur.com/2009/08/the-real-time-board-in-just-a-few-words/ http://blog.surchur.com/2009/08/the-real-time-board-in-just-a-few-words/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 22:15:21 +0000 monika http://blog.surchur.com/?p=289 .

Relevant

Easy

Accurate

Lively

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Timely

Incredible

Modern

Excellent

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Broad

On Topic

Addictive

Remarkable

Dependable


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not convinced yet? see for yourself at surchur.com

]]> http://blog.surchur.com/2009/08/the-real-time-board-in-just-a-few-words/feed/ Is surchur for everybody? http://blog.surchur.com/2009/07/is-surchur-for-everybody/ http://blog.surchur.com/2009/07/is-surchur-for-everybody/#comments Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:38:56 +0000 monika http://blog.surchur.com/?p=282

“Through ignorance we err, and through error we learn”

Real time search is important if you are interested in what is going on right now. It is a great tool for marketers monitoring reactions to their current business campaigns.  Just as super for  journalists who mine online data to keep track of what people are interested in or for surfers to easily monitor their favorite topics.

That is why Surchur is perfect for literally everyone who wants to be kept current on  ‘the right now.’  That includes all the relevant data from blogs, twitter, photos, news, video and more.

On top of all this cool stuff surchur.com is THE place to find ALL of this in a simple, direct, one-page dashboard.  From there you can go anywhere!

Check our other unique and cool features: history, bookmark, dashboard, surchmeter and more.

]]> http://blog.surchur.com/2009/07/is-surchur-for-everybody/feed/ The DON’Ts list http://blog.surchur.com/2009/07/the-donts-list/ http://blog.surchur.com/2009/07/the-donts-list/#comments Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:32:43 +0000 monika http://blog.surchur.com/?p=264 When NOT to use surchur.com:

  • when you don’t want to know what people are talking about right now
  • if you don’t want to be kept up to date with the latest news, blog entries, tweets and more
  • if you don’t want to monitor your reputation
  • when you don’t want to see fast search results
  • when you don’t want to find updates on the same topic in multiple sources at one time
  • when you don’t care how popular your keyword is
  • when you don’t need clean URLs
  • if you don’t care about checking the history of your surched topic
  • when you don’t want  your bookmarked page to automatically be updated with the most recent content each time you visit
  • when you don’t want a lot of bookmark & content sharing possibilities
  • you don’t feel the need to have a cool RSS feature

…and finally if you don’t care about real time search DON’T use surchur.com

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