New Search Engine With a Social Twist
November 16th 2006 19:03
Social bookmarking and community based network is really hot these days. As I predicted earlier, I think we've only just seen the beginning of the Tsunami of traffic and internet users waiting just around the corner. It's all a matter of being aware that the communities exist, and with the speed of todays communication it shouldn't take long for the social internet message to go completely global.
Now we get to taste a social networking by-product, URL.com. URL is a fairly big search project that pulls data from the three biggest search engines (MSN, Yahoo, and Google) and then provides the user edited results. So basically it aggregates results from the top search engines, and then allows the community to decide what should stay and what should go.
Personally, I think human interaction is EXACTLY what search engines need. My only concern is that these new sites will be exploited by those wishing to be ranked #1 with little or no care for what they might be doing to the quality of the Internet. Hopefully the folks over at URL.com are thinking about that and will be able to come up with solutions to help address the threat.
Either way, I dig this search engine and hope we see more similar projects soon.
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