Social Powered Search Comes To Life in 50 Matches
May 15, 2007 by Pablo Palatnik
{Refer this post to my post on Search Engine Journal: Are Social Powered Search Engines The Future Of Search?}
The emergence and up roaring popularity of the social bookmark sites, a new search engine has emerged. 50Matches.com is a social powered search engine. What does that mean? 50 Matches only crawls websites that are voted by people on sites such as Digg, Stumbleupon, & Delicious.
50 Matches can argue their engine yields high quality relevant results since they only crawl voted sites and stories. Let’s keep in mind, many people (mostly marketers) game sites such as Digg, Stumble, and more to get as many votes as possible.
When talking about social bookmarking and their engine, 50 Matches states,
[“In a way, people that use these sites act as smart agents and add to these big databases the most liked sites on the web. No company could compete with the man hours people put in saving and tagging their bookmarks. No algorithm could calculate site quality better than humans.
50 matches is in this search evolution junction. We crawl only sites that were bookmarked , "dugg" or "reddit'ed" by combining human indexing with machine indexing. A real social search engine with search results - quality no one can compete with!â€]
