Similicio.us: In Search of Search Relevance
A slashdot article by Thomas Hank describes a tool called Similicio.us, that uses del.icio.us and EasyUtil.com to provide us with a new way of doing relevance search.
Similicio.us is a search engine that allows you to type in your favorite domain and receive suggestions of similar domains that might be of interest. The site just launched this week and was designed by Ying Xie of EasyUtil.com. Ying created this site by combining the relevancy search application EasyUtil.com with the vast resources of Del.icio.us. EasyUtil is a search application that tries to improve search results by looking at what other internet users found revelent and then ranking sites accordingly. The company is “hoping to capture small/medium sized online vendors that don’t have the technical know-how, but still want Amazon like recommendations,” according to Ying.
Basically, Ying built a site that scores relevance based on the tags generated by users for sites in del.icio.us. This is basically old school yahoo-style editor-scored relevance scoring with one major difference. The difference is the thousands of del.icio.us users being used as editors.
Maybe, we should consider doing CultureRank in the same way.
