04.22.08
Stumpedia.com ChaCha.com and Human Powered Results
The problem with entirely human powered results is the amount of time it takes to build a library of results. At www.ISayHello.com we are focusing on finding the best places for categories of results, and then working to categorize every search term so that you get good results. We are also creating content for top results. This allows us to be relevant for everything, and great on the most popular results.
Granted with only 48 hours of being live we don’t have a huge assortment of customized results, but we are able to move much faster than most, because we aren’t focusing on re-writing 300 words from Wikipedia for every result, we are instead focusing on finding the best results on the web for large categories of data, and so tomorrow when we add 24k results for prescription medications those 24k results will be much better than they were today. And unlike Mahalo or Stumpedia the improvements to those 24k results didn’t cost us even a dollar an entry.
The model is in a lot of ways like Google’s where you "tune" the algorithm, except that we will also be tuning the layout of results, what items are on the page, and how we present data.
It is our goal that you could use ISayHello.com as your primary search engine. You can’t do that with ChaCha or Stumpedia, or Wikipedia.
This is a response to:
TechCrunch: Miss Tormenting ChaCha Operators? Let Me Introduce You To Stumpedia
Edit: Stumpedia has 3,981 links - 803 members - over 4,500 search terms… We launched with 108k tuned results, 1million links, and I have no idea how many search terms… and I expect to add 10k a day.