"Connecting people" functionality, e.g. find similar blogs to your own

[m-i-l]

I think the problem with the non-commercial web at the moment is that it sometimes seems like a barren wilderness. However, in reality, I believe there are loads of isolated but fabulous oases out there, and the problem is simply finding them. It would be great if searchmysite.net were to grow useful enough to become a good way to find and connect these oases, e.g. to become the place to go for finding and searching people's personal websites. Also, one of the great things about the early web is that it helped you find "your people", i.e. connect with groups with similar specialist interests, so it would be great if searchmysite.net was able to help on that front.

From a technical perspective there's lots of things that could be implemented, e.g. MoreLikeThis or vector search (which would need a Solr upgrade).

In interface terms, the only thing I can think of at the moment is to replace the (not as useful as I thought it would be) Tags column on Browse Sites with a new Similar sites column, and maybe also a Similar pages link next to individual search results.