Ross Mayfield points to a new search engine called Webs Biggest. What makes it unique is that users can add/edit search results.
A natural next step would be to add tagging features as well so that users can create sets of search results and share them with fellow searchers of like mind.
Here is some of what Ross said:
“It leverages existing search engines and scrapes the whois database. The spider captures summaries, which is all the engine searches, which gives you easy breadth, but not depth. The summaries are far from perfect, but it seems the idea is they are meant to be changed. A smart hack, if legal (Andy Beal wonders if this violates whois guidelines).
Users can edit search results and must provide their email addresses to be notified when there is an edit. Past edits are stored below. This doesn’t make it a wiki whatsoever, its closer to blog comments, but an annotated search engine isn’t a bad idea. The founding concept for Google wasn’t a search engine, but developing the annotated web. Kwiki-based Wikalong is the closest to that in the wiki world, blogs are the analog.”
Steve Rubel is a PR strategist with nearly 16 years of public relations, marketing, journalism and communications experience. He currently serves as a Senior Vice President with Edelman, the largest independent global PR firm.
He authors the Micro Persuasion weblog, which tracks how blogs and participatory journalism are changing the public relations practice.
