Our comments and trackback policy You Link We Follow, You Comment We Promote

Outbrain is the new recommendation engine that lets you put recommendations for blogs and news content available on the web. Outbrain comes with a commitment to help readers find the best content that is most relevant to the readers taste. What makes it stand out? The answer is simple that the countless recommendation engines simply display ‘related links’ that have the same suggestions for everyone to see; Outbrain keeps itself stuck to the traditional method (partially) of generating traffic to the blogs and at the same time keeping the user’s thirst for the best content in mind.

So how does this work? Outbrain combines the recommendations and likings of RSS/Blog and news readers so that the next time another reader is out there looking up for something to run his eyes through; Outbrain jumps forward with something worth running your eyes through, making sure you don’t get stuffed with what is hot whether it relates to your interest or not.

The present technique uses a feature called a ‘Reporting Dashboard’ (as reported by Kristen Nicole) that features various things including rating analysis, data within page views and that on the traffic directed to your site. With concerns over filtering of data; there is just enough support in this matter for users a Outbrain sorts out content by popularity (comprised of rating, their weight-age and age), making sure the latest and most popular news on a publisher’s site remains updated.

Outbrain supports all major blogging platforms namely, Wordpress, Blogger, Typepad, and Drupal. Plus there is no worry about seeing ‘powered by Outbrain’ logo; meaning there is no intention to utilize the widget for marketing purpose.

The widget is fully customizable so as to blend it into your own blog design; you feel like it’s your own right from the moment its there in your blog. Plus Outbrain also offers FeedFlare support that allow rating capabilities to your RSS feed readers. No need to be worried if they use their feed reader and not pop up to your site! 

And the brain doesn’t stop going on an outing here, there is more ready to flow out through the pipes and offer more to the users! Let’s wait and see what brain outs itself with.