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A lot of people had heard about the news when Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia announced that he was going to use the same methods that created a people powered encyclopedia over to creating a people powered search engine. Sadly enough, the project was over-hyped and a terrible alpha site was released. While I hope after some bug testing that Jimmy’s search engine does well, right now things are looking troubling.
On the other hand, a new startup named Stumpedia has done exactly what Jimmy Wales was planning on doing. Stumpedia is a fully functional people powered search engine. You submit sites for whatever search term you want, and the general population of Stumpedia site users will give a thumbs up, or a thumbs down on how relevant the search is.
While people powered search engines are a great idea, it will have to make quite an impression if a search engine wants to top the Google name brand. Since the site has had its press releases announced today, there are few people who use the site. This means that there is little competition for your keywords. As it currently stands, I am the only site that ranks for the term make money blogging (See the Stumpedia search page for my keyword here). If you like playing around with alpha/beta sites, I recommend checking it out.
You can learn more about Stumpedia at their website, or through their press release.
Do you think people powered search engines have a chance at taking over Google’s crown?
I am totally heading over there to submit my site.
Very Good Share Collin and I hope its gonna be a success like wikipedia
I hope this site becomes cool
Looks great, time to have a play!
Jerry
This sounds very cool. I just hope that people-powered doesn’t turn into advertiser/spammer powered with thumbs-up exchanges, etc. Hopefully they’ll be able to attract enough passionate users quickly to keep things clean and useful.
Awesome search engine.
I can’t help but wonder how quickly it will take for this to become an abused system making the results useless. This is a great idea and at least with users trying to break the system, it will only allow them to fine tune it and eventually come out with a solid people-powered search engine.
The more the merrier, will go and check it out. Thanks for the heads up.
can’t hurt to have more links! Thanks for yet another great link-building tip…