Webware: This is one of the most innovative ideas at Demo 2008: Delver, a search engine that displays results for you based on what your friends and contacts are doing online.

Technology Review: A company called Delver, which presented at Demo earlier this week, is working on a search engine that uses social-network data to return personalized results from the larger Web.

ZDNet: Delver prioritizes results based on a user’s network by indexing information from social networking profiles, blogs, photo and video sharing sites and other services.

Washington Post: Sites that already know my preferences and friends, without any input from the user, could score big with social networking addicts.

TechCrunch: Since every person’s social graph is unique—much like a fingerprint—the same Delver query will produce significantly different results for each person—as reflected through the collective experiences of each person’s contacts.

Boston Herald: ...an attempt at Google-killer, and not a half bad one.

Mashable: Delver, on the other hand, has gone straight for the money. Why not leverage a user’s social “graph” in order to mine search results? Delver does this with an impressive process that doesn’t even require you to create an account.

Laptop Magazine: Leading the “why didn’t I think of that” category is Delver.

PC World: ...plain interesting and worthy of further investigation.

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