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Stumpedia - Search For the People By The People

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. In other words, Stumpedia allows content producers to submit and profit from their work and then allows the search community to determine relevancy of search results. While it is similar to human powered search engines Mahalo and Wikia Search, it differentiates itself because it is powered by the very people that use it.

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People Search Engine "Spock" is Open for Business

The much anticipated people search engine Spock launched today, however is it slower than molasses. I have attempted to play with it a few times and have found myself waiting, and waiting and waiting some more before getting frustrated which follows with me leaving. I was able to create a profile for my name, add my main web sites, add a couple of tags and even locate a few friends.

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ChaCha.com Secures $6 Million in Private Funding

Remember ChaCha.com? They created a lot of buzz in September of last year when they officially announced their human-powered search engine. I had blogged about it and after doing so, received a flood of inquiries from people who wanted to work for us, thinking we were ChaCha itself. Not only did I find this amusing, I had also voiced my opinion that their concept may have been useful before we had search engines that can retrieve results in nano seconds. But why now? Well, they are still operating and picking up speed at that. They just received 6 million dollars in private finding from the likes of Jeff Bezos, Rod Canion, Jack Gill and others.

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Matt McGee Interviews Jon Glick of Become.com

Friend and fellow moderator at Small Business Ideas Forum, Matt McGee, has put together a three part interview with Jon Glick, Senior Director of product search and comparison shopping for the shopping search engine Become.com. Prior to joining Become.com in 2005, Jon spent several years with Yahoo! as a key member of their search team, and was integral to Yahoo’s launch of its own search engine in 2004. Matt accidentally ran into Jon at the 2006 Search Engine Strategies conference in San Jose, out of which was born this three part interview. Read on for links as well as a few excerpts.

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New Search Engine Zotspot Wants To Share the Wealth

New search engines launch all the time but how many entice users by offering to pay them to search? None until Zotspot, a new search engine that actually pays its searchers to search. The idea is to attract a user base that will use Zotspot for their search queries and then share the wealth by either allowing the searcher to keep their earnings or donate them to charity.

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Get Paid To Answer Questions Online at ChaCha.com

A new social search site called ChaCha.com will pay people to answer questions online. CNet reports that ChaCha.com will pay what they call "guides" up to $10 per hour as they search for Web sites that contain answers to user questions. Additionally guides can invite other guides to the site and earn 10 percent of what the invited guides earn.

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Finding Web Classifieds Is Now Easier With Vast

New classified search engine Vast launches today, looking to capitalize on the need for more specialized search services. Vast is a search engine and Web crawler designed to more easily find classified ads with an initial focus on autos, personals and jobs, but more topics like housing, motorcycles and pets to come as the year goes on.

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New Site Helps Keep Track of Sexual Offenders

The National Coalition of Victims in Action has launched a new site that helps locate sexual offenders in geographically specific locations. "Family Watchdog" uses a local map search function, searchable by address, city, state and/or zip code that displays sex offenders in specific geographical areas.

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