About.com - 9-Dec-05 - BoardTracker, a Forum and Message Boards Search Engine
by Wendy Boswell
BoardTracker is a search engine dedicated to only sifting through forums and online message boards. It's a highly targeted search engine and brought back relatively good results.
How To Use BoardTracker
You can simply navigate to the main BoardTracker home page and type in a term. To the right of the main search bar is a drop-down menu of categories; you have the option to narrow your search using this menu, or you can browse the categories directly below the search bar as well. In addition, you can also check out BoardTracker's Advanced Search options.
Searches are relatively good; for example, my search for Bill Gates predictably returned quite a few results.
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| | webpronews.com - 14-Nov-05 - BoardTracker Does Forum Searching
by: David Utter
The site, run by Pidgin Technologies, focuses only on message boards and forums and can do message tracking and send instant alerts based on user criteria.
With all the attention paid to bloggers, blog comments, and blog search, the concept of the message forum gets little notice in the press. But thousands of forums exist on a breadth of topics. BoardTracker, currently in beta, bills itself as a forum-focused search engine...
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| | searchenginewatch.com - 6-Oct-05 - Finding Treasure in Boards and Forums
by Chris Sherman
Most people turn to the web as a primary information source these days, but there's a lot of great stuff in traditional forums and bulletin board systems—if you know where to look.
You may be familiar with our Search Engine Watch forums, our community of people interested in discussing search engines and search marketing with one another. There are literally thousands of other online forums dedicated to specialized topics, ranging the gamut from astronomy to zymurgy.
Forums can be a great source of information, especially if you're looking for anecdotal information or commentary from experts in a particular field.
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| | Data Mining - 6-Oct-05 - BoardTracker - a board specific portal
by Matthew Hurst
I've been having a look at BoardTracker. They are a board (web message board) specific search engine, but they offer a whole lot more.
They currently have a pretty low volume (11k forums tracked). However, what I find really interesting is that they are coming to the space with a clear understanding of the value of message boards in terms of business and marketing research. For end users, they offer features such as RSS driven search feeds, author profiles, segmentation (boards are catalogued). For board owners/moderators, they promise to drive traffic to the board (no cache of posts, just snippets). They are really on the money.
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