Human search engine

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A human search engine is a search engine that uses human participation to filter the search results and assist users in clarifying their search request. The goal is to provide users with a limited number of relevant results, as opposed to traditional search engines that often return a large number of results that may or may not be relevant.

Examples of human search engines include Jumper 2.0, Sproose, NiteCo^[1], ChaCha Search, Mahalo.com, and the now defunct NowNow from Amazon.com.

[edit] See also

• Human-based computation
• Social search

[edit] References

• ""Human-Powered" Search Engine ChaCha Gets $10 Million". www.dmwmedia.com. http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2007/11/14/human-powered-search-engine-chacha-gets-10-million. Retrieved 2008-01-01. 

• "Wikipedia to launch human search engine - Editors Weblog". www.editorsweblog.org. http://www.editorsweblog.org/news/2007/09/wikipedia_to_launch_human_search_engine.php. Retrieved 2008-01-01. 

• "hengine: The Human Search Engine - hengine". www.hengine.org. http://www.hengine.org/. Retrieved 2009-06-11. 

• "DMOZ - ODP". www.dmoz.org. http://www.dmoz.org/. Retrieved 2009-06-11.