[Search-l] 10 People Powered Search Engines

[Andre Engels]

2007/8/6, Jimmy Wales <jwales at wikia.com>:
> Seth Ford wrote:
> > Saw these articles
> > http://mashable.com/2007/06/01/10-people-powered-search-engines/  and
> > http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2006/09/04/BUGVCKTPOP1.DTL
> > I completely agree with Rob Enderle... "You can't build a better Google.
> > You have to approach this market differently". Personally I love the way
> > http://mahalo.com/ is tackling the problem... they just need a bit more
> > work. But the mashup for people powered wiki content and Google search
> > for the tail that doesn't exist is the right one.
>
> I agree with the general concept of "let humans do what humans do well,
> let computers do what computers do well" and I also think this roughly
> translates to "the head and the long tail"...
>
> But what Mahalo is doing is totally uninteresting to me because it is
> proprietary.  It doesn't change the structure of the industry.

It might be uninteresting in the sense of "someone to work with", but
it still looks good as an  idea of how it could work. I myself would
like to integrate search engine and pages more - like showing the
first search results as far as not yet on the page with the page
itself. That would help users in finding new material to add to the
page, and it could also improve the search engine if they could give
judgements with reasons to the results (like "bring this result down
because it is about another subject/is just advertisement/contains
less information than already is on the page/is about a narrow
sub-subject only...")

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