StinkyTeddy.com - An Alternative Search Engine

You could never tell by glancing at its name alone, but Stinky Teddy is a search engine. Presentation-wise, there are no big surprises here: you have the obligatory input box for specifying what you want, along with a series of refinement labels that include the main topics people are always interested in such as news, images and videos.

In terms of performance, it all depends on what you are looking for. What you must keep in mind is that this is a meta-search engine that will look at what is being talked the most on the web at any specific time in order to display results back to you. That is the main asset of a search engine like this one. For example, in times of financial turmoil some concepts are more discussed and searched than others, like “recoup”, “make money” and “save money”. A search engine like this one will take these real time trends into account before presenting results right back to you, and it culls the information from as many sources as it can, too.

The name of the portal, incidentally, comes from the mascot of the programmers’ daughter. Say what you want about it, you can’t accuse it of not being novel. The programmer is working on some advanced algorithms right now, and it will be definitely interesting to see in which ways searches conducted this way can differentiate themselves on the whole.

“Stinky Teddy is Real-Time Gossip Powered Metasearch. A metasearch engine submits a user's search request to multiple search engines. The responses are combined to give the user the best possible results. Rather than being a simple mashup or utilizing a simple initial rank algorithm, Stinky Teddy analyzes the content of the search feeds to find the best results. If the real-time web is buzzing with chatter about a set of search terms, we use this real-time gossip to decide what is relevant at that moment.”

If you are looking for information that is essentially dependent on trends and that can vary by the minute, an engine like this one can come in quite handy.

What chances has such an engine of becoming a standard?