I recently stumbled on a website called InSuggest (http://insuggest.com). It is a site that recommends websites based on an area of interest. I thought it could be helpful to our members so I took it for a test drive.

Right now, the site works in two ways. First, you enter in a web page and InSuggest recommends related pages. You can then filter the results by clicking on the sites you like. As you do this InSuggest gets a better idea of what you are looking for and offers more and more relevant sites.
The second way InSuggest recommends WebPages is through a Delicious account. If you enter in your or anyone’s Delicious account name the website will offer new suggestions to you based on the bookmarks in your Delicious account. This works best if you have very similar types of bookmarks in your account, otherwise you will get recommendations as diverse as your bookmark list.

I found the website to be easy to use. However, it didn’t always recommend the ‘best’ websites. For example, I asked for recommendations for WebMD and it referred me to IMDB, and Amazon. Overall I found the site easy to use, and it is a fun and pretty quick way of finding new sites out there. Its visual interface blows competitors like “http://similicio.us/” out of the water.

The best way to use it is to start by entering in a webpage that you like and then filtering through its suggestions. The Delicious search has great potential, but it could use some more work. It would be nice if you could select just a couple of tags from your account and InSuggest could recommend sites based on those tags.

If InSuggest was linked to my PeoplesMD profile in a similar way it is linked to Delicious, it could offer recommendations based on the links I've added to my own profile. Hopefully, there's a more open API coming ahead.