This is a write-up about an experiment from a few months ago, in how to find websites that are similar to each other. Website similarity is useful for many things, including discovering new websites to crawl, as well as suggesting similar websites in the Marginalia Search random exploration mode.

It’s Urchin, purchased, rebranded, and integrated with AdWords. Also: it costs nothing but your Google cookie (w/ a 5MB pageview cap for non-AdWords subscribers).

“The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream”

“Google provides a full suite of services for the entry-level blog spammer.”