Why Social Search?
While social-search works similar to normal search-engines, there are 3 additional benefits:- Quality over Quantity: Instead of crawling the whole web we focus on the best websites that have been bookmarked or shared by real people.
- Personalized results: Everybody get`s individually tailored results and is able to adjust who`s links are most important for him/her.
- It get`s better over time: After your connected to facebook or twitter social-search adds all the links from your stream into your site-pool.
How to get started with social search?
Just use it like you would use Google, Yahoo or Bing: Type a query into the search box on the main page. If this is your first search, you need to connect to one of your social-networks. After the initialization it takes you back to your results.
Stats
Staff: 1, Servers: 4, Investors: none, State: stable & profitable,Testers so far: 15487, Friends of Testers: 313.500
No. of websites indexed through social web: 87,241,844
Research / Science
Social-search.com is the master thesis project by Bastian Karweg and based upon folkd.com a social-bookmarking service he founded in 2006. It has been several month in the making and currently is in public beta.
Several theories and algorithms have been developed in collaboration with Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization (IPD) at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT). Especially Christian Hütter and Prof. Dr.-Ing. Klemens Böhm.