I just released a new feature for Talk Digger. The idea of the feature is born with a wish of a PR worker called David Jones that wanted to be able to see and sort results per regions (countries). It was important for him considering that his client cared more about the comments from people in their targeted markets than the others. I found that that feature was essential for Talk Digger; not just for marketing and PR workers but also for everybody. What I like with this idea is that it put a touch of humanness in the digged conversations. It gives a new metric to users to try to analyze who are talking in a conversation. So I take the last two days to develop and release that new feature.

What this new feature is all about? It is called Regional setting. This setting let you enable the regional view of each result. If that feature is enabled (by default it is disabled) a flag of the country where the server that host the resulting web will appears. This option is useful when you try to find people living in a specific country that talk about an URL. This option is especially helpful for marketing and PR workers that have to do regional searches for the products of their clients.

How to interpret the flags? The flag appearing beside a title shows the country where the web page is hosted. If a Japanese blogger host his blog in America, then you will see the flag of the United-States except if he do not have a generic domain name (.com, .net, etc.) but a country one (.jp). However, people generally take their country domain names or at least host their web pages with a local web hoster. Considering the situation, I would say that 70% of the displayed flags represent the country where the creator of the result lives.

If you enable that feature, you will be able to sort the incoming results by countries. For example, here the first results will be the Canadian pages and all the others will be grouped by countries.

I hope that you will find that new feature, another one that saw the day by my interaction with Talk Digger users, as useful as I.

Happy New Year!

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