Swamii is like Google alerts, but gives people more control over what they are looking for, as well as more options. It looks like another, “hey buy me Google” product, but they seem to have put a lot of effort into it. I set up several “interests”, and the results were decent. The more focused on Internet related topics, the better the results.
It’s like a search engine that keeps on giving. You enter your common searches (we call them ‘interests’) and then every time you visit, Swamii show’s you all the new stuff we’ve found since the last time.
They do offer an option to give them an e-mail address, and they will send the results to your mailbox. It would be cool if they offered and RSS feed of the interests as well.
Swamii allows people to search for news, blogs, P2P, video, TV, shopping, jobs and videos; while Google gives people news, blog, web and groups. I guess Web means everything on the Web, but Swamii seems to be more comprehensive.
I did one on UFC for a friend of mine, and he said the results were useless. I did one on Web 2.0, and they were really good. Like I mentioned above, the closer the topic is related to the Web, the better.