Stumpedia is a people powered search engine

February 27, 2008 by Collin LaHay
Filed under: General, Reviews 

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.

Comments

9 Comments on Stumpedia is a people powered search engine

  1. Futon-Matt on Thu, 28th Feb 2008 7:58 am

    2. I am totally heading over there to submit my site. :)

  2. Sudarshan on Thu, 28th Feb 2008 10:44 am

    3. Very Good Share Collin and I hope its gonna be a success like wikipedia

  3. Rakesh on Thu, 28th Feb 2008 11:59 pm

    4. I hope this site becomes cool

  4. Jerry on Sat, 1st Mar 2008 10:01 am

    5. Looks great, time to have a play!
    Jerry

  5. Stefanie on Tue, 4th Mar 2008 9:57 am

    6. 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.

  6. Lou on Thu, 6th Mar 2008 1:39 pm

    7. Awesome search engine.

  7. Vancouver SEO on Mon, 26th May 2008 6:39 pm

    8. 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.

  8. Internet Age on Tue, 3rd Jun 2008 4:20 pm

    9. The more the merrier, will go and check it out. Thanks for the heads up.

  9. Sacramento Weddings on Thu, 17th Jul 2008 10:41 pm

    10. can’t hurt to have more links! Thanks for yet another great link-building tip…

Tell me what you're thinking...
and oh, if you want a pic to show with your comment, go get a gravatar!