Search engines have come a long way.
In the beginning (1991) search was done with Archie which downloaded the directory listings of all the files located on public anonymous FTP sites. Later came Gopher, Veronica and Jughead which indexed plain text documents.
The first "full text" crawler-based search engine was WebCrawler, which came out in 1994. Webcrawler lets users search for any word in any webpage, which has become the standard for all major search engines. Metatags and page titles were important those days and were the main indicator of the site content. The problem is that not all sites had metatags and not all site descriptions were accurate.
To increase quality of sites displayed in search results, directories such as Yahoo! and DMOZ appeared and integrated in search engines. Human editors were in charge to index only quality sites. The problem is that a lot of new sites are up each day and a company like Yahoo! could not have the manpower to keep track of all new changes.
Then came Google. Around 2001, Google rose to prominence. Its success was based, in part, on the concept of link popularity and an improved site ranking algorithm called PageRank. Google rules the world of search engines these days. For some time, people feel that Google search results are not good as sites fight to appear in its first results. Google seems to be broken and its time for search to evolve again.
Enter social book marking. People save their bookmarks online (in sites like del.icio.us) and post links to their favorite sites (in sites like digg and reddit). In a way, people that use these sites act as smart agents and add to these big databases the most liked sites on the web. No company could compete with the man hours people put in saving and tagging their bookmarks. No algorithm could calculate site quality better than humans.
50 matches is in this search evolution junction. We crawl only sites that were bookmarked , "dugg" or "reddit'ed" by combining human indexing with machine indexing. A real social search engine with search results - quality no one can compete with!
We return only 50 matches - if there is a quality result to your search - it's here!
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