I’ve talked about’ social search‘ hereon the Social Software Weblog before. And it seems that search is dead center on many ’social’ activities. But MultiplyInc., accordinging to a pressrelease and an email I received from Michael Gersh—co-founder of Multiply, has crafted a social search facility forits users that focuses on information found in one’s own social network.
According to Michael, Multiply Search is: “…the first search-engine that finds content published and written bypeople you are socially connected to… Results are sorted according to the social proximity index, as well astraditional key-word relevance. Since the searcher knows relationship to the publisher a comfortable forum fordiscussion exists… Multiply is the first to elegantly integrate the Internet’s two killer applications; search andcommunication…”
How is Multiply these days? Any early adopters still hanging in there? Comments? Feedback?
