Topicle.com - Wikipedia Search Engines

Topicle.com is like a wikipedia search engine. You can choose which type of search engine you are looking for then you can and another URL to that search engine or create your own. When you visit Topicle.com you can choose to use one of the topic search engines already created by another users in one of the many categories: news, beauty, recipes, soccer, etc... If you think the search engine you chose lacks something you can add another URL. Search engines can have a maximum of five URLs. If you prefer creating your own search engine you can choose a unique name and add between one to five URLs to your search engine. Topicle search engines help you find what you are looking for by looking in a specific area. All of the search engines are rated between one and five stars. The rating is done by a mix of the rating users give a search engine and how many times a search engine is used. Topicle.com helps you make an efficient search by focusing on a specific topic.

"Our goal is to enable users to easily find more relevant information on the Internet, with you - the Topicle community - as experts. We want to generate more precise and useful search results with sources recommended by humans than solely with computer-generated algorithms.

With Topicle, you can create a new vertical search engine with a few clicks. In Topicle's world, a vertical search engine is a topic search engine, like Digital Camera Reviews, Parenting or Diabetes. Each Topicle search engine only searches handpicked URLs, instead of the whole Web.

All Topicle search engines are open, and everyone can contribute by adding URLs and rating existing URLs. Just like anyone can author articles on Wikipedia, anyone can create and enhance search engines on Topicle. With everyone's help, Topicle search engines will get better and better over time.
Here is an example: You like cooking (we hope you do) and you create a Topicle search engine called "Best Recipe Sites". You and other community members can add their favorite cooking URLs to the Topicle search engine you just created."

Topicle.com has an attractive interface. The site explains the search engines very well and is easy to navigate. The rating system is fair, unlike many rating systems which are just popularity contests Topicle.com takes into consideration how frequently used the search engine is. It is great that users can be creative and choose the URLs they think are the best to create their own search engine.

Topicle.com could use a blog or forum in which users could discuss the search engines, the discussion group doesn't seem to be too popular. Although there is the rating system each week a search engine could be highlighted so that users could get a chance to use notice all of the search engines.