Eurekster is a different kind of search engine. It is based on community decisions on what the top results should be. What you would have to do to get inclusion into Eurekster is to create your own swicki. It would be tailored to your particular interests. The swicki will then scan all of the updated pages from your particular site. As people use your particular swicki, the system will learn behaviors of people, and rank your site accordingly.
In a basic approach, a Swicki is a search engine that learns from your users. Results are produced for relevancy, and a buzzcloud of searches are created based on only what users care about.
1. Very interesting. Sounds like a mix of del.icio.us, ask.com, and stumbleupon (firefox addon). I wonder how easily the results could be manipulated. Obviously, as the user base increases, the results will improve and be harder to manipulate.
Posted at 7:19PM on Aug 2nd 2006 by Adam Sharp