Whatali.st - Lists about every possible subject, with that zesty Italian flavor.

Innovation in searching, useful features such as tagging, voting, and commenting, and social networking all come together at Whatali.st. This is a search engine that provides a list format which you can search through to find links to sites about every subject imaginable. The site allows users to submit, order, vote and share resources about any subject, using social networking elements as tagging, voting and commenting. You can browse the lists by subject, votes, or by tags, and you can add them as bookmarks.

“WhatALi.st is a list engine completely managed by users. Thanks to new web 2.0 technologies like Ajax, Ruby on Rails, and typical social networking elements like Tagging, Voting and Commenting, lists and items are proposed and organized in a friendly and easy to use style.

It´s a fun, easy, and productive way to search that brings up options you might not stumble across using other search engines. The voting system is helpful for determining the value of your results. It´s already being used by plenty of people, and at this height of popularity it can only become more and more useful as more lists are created and voted upon.

This site has some big competitors to stand up to, such as Google and Wikipedia, which provide endless results with rankings and in easy-to-view formats. Some people might be scared-off by WhatALi.st´s more complicated usage procedures, and by the fact that you have to join to use it. Also, what"s with the weird domain name?