An online notebook
The latest stage of my attempt to take over the world of vertical search is KMSearch, which focuses on knowledge management resources.
As well as the search engine, there is a wiki to manage the site, which includes the list of sites searched. Please get involved if you have sites you would like to see added.
Big thanks to Lucas McDonnell, whose post on 46 KM resources kicked things off for me.
BookZilla is another customised search site, like LGSearch, that I knocked together this afternoon.
I think it is pretty obvious what it does. I’m running it through Palimpsest, the books discussion site I facilitate, with any ad revenue going towards the maintenance of the forum.
BookZilla is another customised search site, like LGSearch, that I knocked together this afternoon.
I think it is pretty obvious what it does. I’m running it through Palimpsest, the books discussion site I facilitate, with any ad revenue going towards the maintenance of the forum.
Jason Calacanis has launched Mahalo, a human edited search engine, based on the MediaWiki platform used by, amongst others, Wikipedia.
It’s funny, I remembered immediately the blog post Jason wrote about buying the Mahalo domain and not knowing what to do with it back in November last year.
Here’s how the FAQ page explains the model:
Mahalo is the world’s first human-powered search engine powered by an enthusiastic and energetic group of Guides. Our Guides spend their days searching, filtering out spam, and hand-crafting the best search results possible. If they haven’t yet built a search result, you can request that search result. You can also suggest links for any of our search results.
Interesting – so it’s Google crossed with DMOZ crossed with Wikipedia. Kind of.
Now, this is the future of web search:
How can you really claim to explore the web when your search engine only returns the results you are looking for?
You can’t. That’s why ACrappySearchEngine.com returns results from all across the web regardless of what you search for…
Now some people will say our service isn’t useful but to that we say, “Look Michael Arrington, Jason Calacanis and every venture capital company we pitched this too – what people really want is to discover what they weren’t looking for! Heck, Columbus was searching for India when he found America and that seemed to work out for everyone didn’t it?”
Just what we all need!