TheDailySearch.com - Search The Web & Chat Away

What do you think would happen if Google put a video player and chat box on its main page? The answer can be found or at least imagined more vividly by setting your browser to the Daily Search website. It provides exactly such a platform: a search engine coupled with chat in real-time.

The reasoning behind such a service is one I think we would all agree with: given all the traffic and visits that Google has on average in a single minute, letting people who are searching see each other and engage in conversation could but lead to an interactive experience of its own. Personally, I don’t think a system such as this one means that the result of the search process will be a more representative one. It won’t even be a richer one. Just different. But for the many people who mourn that the WWW has led to a certain dehumanization, such a change won’t go unheeded. If you are not sure where do you stand in that dilemma, visiting the site and launching a search will make it all too clear.

“TheDailySearch.com provides a Multi Powered Custom Search MashUp that aims to be an Agora (place of assembly) type search setting that serves not only as the starting point for your internet sessions but as a hub of activity and live community. TheDailySearch.com aims to change search by making users visible and encouraging conversation between its users by providing chat and popular videos for discussion right on the main page. In effect, the lonely search engine becomes the internet town square or virtual meeting place where you are greeted by old friends, regulars and meet new ones as you would in a normal day. The uniqueness of TDS is how all of its site pages are linked by a single chat to facilitate community, cooperative search between users and an always connected to someone atmosphere. Users on completely different parts our site are able to chat, exchange links, transport each other and assist and cooperate. Our users become a part of our team.”

The ones who feel that current search platforms are missing on interactivity couldn’t ask for a better portal.

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