What is it?

Got a website or Blog? The great thing about the Searchles Widget is it keeps visitors on your website or blog where they belong - they never have to leave your site to bookmark, tag, share and discuss - all the functionality is built into one integrated, easy to use tool. It installs into your webpage with one line of code. How viral is that? It's contagious!

• When your visitors comment, those comments not only stay on your site but are pushed out virally through Searchles, and comments submitted through Searchles directly are pushed back, helping you reach a wider audience.
• Our widget does not hog valuable real estate on your website! The Searchles Widget integrates very unobtrusively at the bottom of your content, collapsing and expanding at the user's direction.
• Users can receive notifications to automatically know when another user has replied to their comments and are prompted to return.
• By scrolling over the tags within the widget, Searchles will automatically recommend related content at your site and elsewhere on the web.
• Works for blogs, online media, social networking, audio and video websites.
• Easy to install with just one line of code. Try it! You'll like it.

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How does it look?

Real estate on your website is valuable! At Searchles, we know that and designed our widget to integrate unobtrusively at the bottom of your content.

Get a real time picture of what your audience thinks is important about your content through tags!

Keep track of who's interested in your specific blog postings, stories or videos!

When your visitors comment, those comments not only stay on your site but are pushed out virally through Searchles and comments submitted through Searchles directly are pushed back, helping you reach a wider audience.

The Searchles Widget allows your audience to instantly share your content with their friends inside and outside of Searchles. How viral is that? It's contagious!!!

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How do I install it?

The installation of the widget is very simple, but requires that you have access to the programming code behind your website.

To install the widget, copy the code below and place it within the page where you want the widget to appear. You will need to programmatically insert the URL (or blog Permalink) and Title of the article (make sure the URL and title are encoded, failure to do so can cause bad stuff to happen - ie. widget no worky).

If you have any problems, don't hesitate to contact us at info (at) searchles.com

Here's the code:

<script src="http://www.searchles.com/widget/widget.js?url=URL&title=TITLE" type="text/javascript"></script>

Make sure you replace URL and TITLE with url encoded versions of the URL and Title of the page or article.

For example: youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dzizejbgkxuq is an encoded version of youtube.com/watch?v=ziZEjBGkXUQ. You must do this in the code of your website (php, jsp, asp, cold fusion, etc.). This is necessary because characters like &, ', ", and ? can screw up the widget code.

Here is an actual, working example of the widget:

For Blogger Beta (Blogspot) blogging platform:

To put the Searchles Widget in your Blogger blog it requires a bit more code, but is still a simple cut and paste.

On your Dashboard go to 'Template' -> 'Edit HTML', then click the checkbox to 'Expand Widget Templates'

The actual code:

<span expr:id='"invisible_title_" + data:post.id' style='display:none;'><data:post.title/></span> <span expr:id='"invisible_url_" + data:post.id' style='display:none;'><data:post.url/></span> <script> var title_<data:post.id/> = encodeURIComponent(document.getElementById('invisible_title_<data:post.id/>').innerHTML); var url_<data:post.id/> = encodeURIComponent(document.getElementById('invisible_url_<data:post.id/>').innerHTML); var ref = 'http://www.searchles.com/widget/widget.js?url=' + url_<data:post.id/> + '&amp;title=' + title_<data:post.id/>; document.write('&lt;script type="text/javascript" src="' + ref + '"&gt;&lt;/sc' + 'ript&gt;'); </script>

For PHP code (including WordPress)

<script src="http://www.searchles.com/widget/widget.js?url=<?php echo urlencode(the_permalink()); ?>&title=<?php echo urlencode(the_title()); ?>" type="text/javascript"></script>

Other Blogging Platform HOWTO's coming soon!!

Other Blogging Platform HOWTO's coming soon!!

My blog/site already has comments, I don't want comments!!!

Ok! Ok! All you need to do is add &disable_comments=true to the url in the javascript and you can take out comments!
Example:

<script src="http://www.searchles.com/widget/widget.js?url=URL&title=TITLE&disable_comments=true" type="text/javascript"></script>

How do I educate my users about the widget?

We are pleased to let you know, thru our partnership with Searchles (www.searchles.com), we recently added a widget at the bottom of each News and article you read on our site. What does this widget do for you?
 

• You will now be able to bookmark, tag, share, group or comment on your favorite content. Your tags and comments are automatically viewable instantly in both and Searchles. Feel free to join the related groups on Searchles and post your favorite News from our site to those groups  
• You can receive notifications to automatically know when another user has replied to your comments.
• By using your mouse to scroll over tags within the widget, we will automatically recommend related content biased to the source site and then elsewhere on the web.

 

IMPORTANT NOTE: To use our widget, please make sure you have already registered with Searchles. Click here to register.

What is Searchles?

Searchles is a highly scaleable "social search" platform that showcases expertise, enables collaboration with peers and instantly captures it in searchable knowledge indexes. The platform is a hybrid, combining aspects of "social bookmarking" and "social networking" technology with analytical "social search" capability. Unlike other social sites that limit discovery through a "wisdom of the masses" approach, Searchles empowers users to determine who influences their discovery efforts, when and how through networks of trust. Network search enables users to discover content with personalized filtering features that include tags, keywords or a combination of both, as well as the ability to apply these same filters to search all postings, groups, friends, or friends' friends based on each user's personal criteria. By analyzing the associations and patterns between trusted people, sources, tags and content, Searchles is able to deliver more precise, relevant results while suggesting content and people related to each user's interests.