Just when you thought that there were enough search engines out there, Url.com comes along, just asking for attention. Url is about social, collaborative searching. It builds upon and aggregates search results from Google, Yahoo, and MSN. You begin your search just as you would anywhere else: enter your query, you´ll get results aggregated from the major search sites; share your results-- vote, rate, make comments. With the bionic search feature you´ll get results pulled from the major three search engines with over all analysis of overlap; the bulls eye message means that all three engines agree on the # 1 result; the voting frame allows you to vote as to whether the results were any good or not. If you register you´ll get access to the best searches and you can share your searches; plus you won´t have to look at ads.
“We use a "bionic search engine" that lets us collaborate and to improve upon a foundation of search results gathered from the best web search engines, including Yahoo!, MSN, and Google. We are learning about new ways to collaborate using web search. How can our way of searching with many (many people, many engines) provide a better search experience? Can we make results more trustworthy, more relevant, more fun, or more rewarding? Can searching together make us more helpful people overall?
The site aims to make searching more relevant, more useful and more human. It´s easy to use, and it allows you to make your search experience a little bit more personal and communal at the same time. Takes the 2.0 spirit into searching.
Will people bother to try and use another search engine. Google is one tough competitor. Will people truly comprehend the value of voting? Will it really affect how results are ranked and displayed?
