You can build your own vertical search engine using Topicle. Topicle is a platform for vertical search engines, rather as Ning is a platform for social networks and BricaBox is a platform for social content.

That’s about as exciting as I can make Topicle sound. It’s less of a platform than a veneer on top of the : it enables search of, not just this blog, but the whole happy Changing Way family of sites.

The most interesting part of the exercise came when I tried to make the engine understand the Boston-ness of this blog. Posts I put in the Boston category should be searched. Posts I put in other categories (e.g., WordPress) should not be searched by the Boston engine.

There’s more enthusiastic coverage of Topicle at and at Mashable. It notes that “former Google Product Manager Steffen Mueller” is behind Topicle.

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