Our product is in a constant state of evolution as we strive to give our clients the best possible platform for gathering useful business intelligence.
Spiral16 scours the Internet and returns the most relevant data based on our customers’ strategies, but as any good marketer will tell you, data means nothing without context and analysis.
That’s why we’ve been updating all the different sorting filters and searches to help you frame the data in a way that is the most useful to you.
Word Search/URL Search
The Word Search form in the Advanced Options box now offers the option of a URL search. This allows you to search all of your collected results for URL terms, instead of relying on a domain name to be in the text of a page.
You can now search either the text or URL itself for specific terms or websites. For example, if you want to see only URLs from Twitter, you would type in “twitter.com,” select “URL,” and click the search button.
(If you were searching for all the relevant nodes from one specific Twitter user, though, you could use the URL search by typing in the domain and username as it appears in Twitter’s URL: For example, “twitter.com/scenestealreric”)
Adding this to the word search function which allows you to drilldown into any post containing your search word adds one more layer of customization to your insight.
Bulk Reporting Options
Bulk Options have been expanded so that users can select results and keep them selected across multiple pages. Users now have greater control over mass actions without having to expand the display view or repeat an action across multiple pages.
You can click the nodes you want to select, go to another page of results and do the same thing, and have a single action affect them all.
This expansion applies to Insight Explorer (complete list of all relevant URLs) and Excerpt Explorer (list of URLs with overt sentiment).
This means there are whole areas of context than you can group together, display, or delete, depending on your needs.
