I've talked a lot about our new Related Content Service on this blog, but have you actually had a chance to experience it live, in the flesh?  If not, you should play around with it on this site.  Why?  Because it's really cool, and I think you'll agree with me in a moment.  The related content feature works best on individual posts as opposed to the front/home page of a site since the engine scans the text on a page, and, in this case, there are a lot of different topics I cover here so it would be hard to distill one or two topics.

The real utility of the offering is on a individual post basis.  For example, my post yesterday was titled, "Quick Link: The Widget is Not a Strategy?"   If you look at the related content widget on the right sidebar of the post, you'll see  5 posts from other sources that are contextually related to the content in my post; in addition, the related content engine has intelligently discovered the best overall topic label for my post is "marketing," which you'll see in orange letters at the bottom of the widget.

Let me give you another example to drive home how cool this feature is.  I wrote a post earlier in the week called, "A Widget onto the Future?" which discussed the potential for using widgets for educational purposes. If you look at the related content widget, (once again, on the right sidebar) you'll see that our related content service has intelligently picked 5 posts that are contextually relevant to my post and has also, automatically, deemed that my post covers the topics "education" & "teaching."

Pretty neat, eh?  If you're interested in learning more about this feature, which can be "turned on" for your Editor's Desk account, please contact me at joshl@newsgator.com.