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Stumpedia - Search For the People By The People

Went Hot: April 2, 2008 - 5:10 pm
Posted By: DavidWallace 459 days ago
Topic Type: News Story (Jump to http://www.searchrank.com)
Category: Other Searching

If you haven't heard of human powered search engine, Stumpedia, you might want to give it a whirl. It is essentially a human-powered search engine with a social aspect to it. Stumpedia allows content producers to submit and profit from their work and then allows the search community to determine relevancy of search results.

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from bwelford 459 days ago #

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Intriguing thought, but who will police this and keep the spammers out?

from theGypsy 459 days ago #

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playin with it.... lurking the boards... will letcha know :0)

from DazzlinDonna 459 days ago #

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22 sphinns and not on front page...hmmm...did they up the number again?

from Doubleohd 459 days ago #

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That's exactly what i was wondering, DazzlinDonna!

from CarrieHill 459 days ago #

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Tadaaaaa - 23 is the magic number ;)

from FirstLightNet 458 days ago #

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Thanks for the heads up, I set up an account and was testing it. Its definetly worth a bookmark!

from crimsongirl 458 days ago #

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The problem with stumpedia is that it has so little in it. As a search engine it is useless because so many searches yield no results. I just did searches for some words - dishes, Neptune, sneakers, Argentina, mutual funds - and got no results. And many searches bring up just the Wikipedia page, which I could have more easily found by going to wikipedia.com.

I know it's still a new project, but I don't see why anyone would use Stumpedia unless they were trying to list their own site. Oh, a search for SEO brings up 28 results. 28 for SEO, but 0 for Argentina or Neptune? This is not a useful search engine.

I find del.icio.us to be a good site for searching sometimes, and it is similar in that ordinary people list bookmarks. But at least there they have a large number of users and a large index of bookmarks, so there is a good chance you can find something useful.

from TinPig 458 days ago #

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like mahalo, clearly stumpedia is an attempt to solve the relevancy issue that exists with the purely algorithmic search engines.

i think it's too early to say if it's useful or not since, as crimsongirl states, it's too new and there's not nearly enough in there. it's unclear to me why they're relying 100% on user link submission. the problem for them will be adoption, and they'll only get the volume they need if they provide value. it could be a catch 22 since, as a content producer, there's little reason for me to submit my sites until they have good traffic, and as a user there's little reason for me to use the service until they have good content.

from stumpedia 458 days ago #

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Thank you all for your interest in Stumpedia and comments. We certainly recognize the lack of search results. Our approach has been to market to SEO professionals, content producers, webmasters and all those who may ultimately benefit from search traffic and find the Stumpedia concept interesting enough to contribute. The next stage would be to market to general users. We definitely agree that we have a long journey ahead, but we are in this for the long haul. At one time or another there was little in google and wikipedia also. ;-)