Spindex Preview System Status Update
07.12.2010 | 2:00PM PST
By Jim Lewallen
I’ve been remiss in not sending updates out on Spindex. We’ve
been hard at work identifying all of the things that made it slow and unreliable,
and as of last week did an updated back end deployment that resolved all of these
issues that we’re aware of. If you haven’t been back in a while,
you should definitely give it a try.
Coming soon, we have a significant update to our UI coming now that the back end
is more reliable. Look for an announcement soon, but a few sneak peaks:
- Improved layout; content moved around to make it more consistent
- Improved trends, less false negatives
- Trends aren’t accurate? You can now suppress a trend locally, or send
it back to us to improve our algorithms
- More to follow
Keep tuned here, or follow
@spindexme on Twitter for service status updates, and be sure to use our
feedback site at http://getsatisfaction.com/fuselabs
to report any issues you are seeing.
Keep on Spindexing!
Spindex Preview Updated!
06.1.2010 | 9:00AM PST
By Jim Lewallen
We’ve updated Spindex today after a good week of feedback and getting
out invites, and you should head over to
http://spindex.me, and try them out. Mostly there were issues fixed, but
a few new features crept in.
New:
- Over on the right side of the UI, we find items in your social stream with the keywords
in addition to bing
- Instead of just getting news from bing if we don’t have a keyword to work
with, we use your trends to find interesting related content
- A number of layout changes to improve readability
- Get More Results should be available and work a lot more often
Issues Addressed:
- Deeper facebook crawls; hopefully more data completeness
- Saving new queries actually saves new queries; saved query counts reset properly
when clicked
- Attempt at fixing the “posts out of order” issue that has been
reported
- Better performance across the board
- A number of other, smaller items
Thank you for your interest, and your patience!
Spindex Preview System Status Update
05.25.2010 | 11:00AM PST
By Jim Lewallen
We have been ramping up Spindex, adding hundreds of users a day. We’ve
discovered some issues, and with this information in hand we are diagnosing, adjusting
and testing frequently. A side effect of this has been that Spindex has not been
particularly reliable for you; something we regret, but has been an important part
of the preview process. The team is now hard at work on a new release that will
improve performance and stability, as well as tuning some of the features already
there such as trending topics, and the contextual results on the right hand side
of the page.
Keep tuned here, or follow
@spindexme for service status updates, and be sure to use our feedback site
at http://getsatisfaction.com/fuselabs
to report any issues you are seeing.
Thank you for your interest, and your patience!
