Stumpedia

Infobox Dotcom company
company_name = Stumpedia.com
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company_type = Internet
genre = Search Engine
foundation = January 2008
founder = Luis Pereira
location = Millstone Township, New Jersey, USA
revenue = unknown
employees = 1
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company_slogan = "Welcome To The Human Powered Search Engine"
url = [http://www.stumpedia.com/ stumpedia.com]


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type of site = Human Search Engine
languages = English
advertising = CPC text ads
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launch_date = February 2008
current_status = live site
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Stumpedia is a human search engine launched in February 2008 by founder Luis Pereira. Stumpedia enables registered users to submit sites along with matching keywords and phrases creating a Social Semantic Web project. The relevancy of search results are then ranked and rated by the volunteer community through the ability to vote listings up or down. Stumpedia is different from Google and Yahoo! or other algorithmic search engines because it is powered and influenced by the very people that use it. Unlike traditional search engines they do not use bots or crawlers.

Stumpedia takes a different approach to human powered search than sites like Mahalo.com and Wikia Search. For example, the relevancy of search results at Mahalo is determined by their staff whose underlying motive is to profit from their own internally produced and hosted content.cite web |url=http://www.searchrank.com/blog/2008/04/stumpedia.html |title=http://www.searchrank.com/blog/2008/04/stumpedia.html |accessdate=2008-09-26 |publisher=David Wallace |date=April 2, 2008 Wikia Search takes the Wikipedia approach to creating and hosting collaborative content pages. Stumpedia's model is based upon improving search relevancy by allowing users to build and control the index.

References

*Citation
url=http://www.searchrank.com/blog/2008/04/stumpedia.html
title=Search For The People By The People
journal =SearchRank

*Citation
url=http://thenextweb.org/2008/04/07/stumpedia-search-wont-be-come-more-social-than-this/
title=Search won't become more social than this
journal =The Next Web

*Citation
url=http://profy.com/2008/04/10/stumpedia-offers-a-true-human-powered-search-experience/
title=Stumpedia Offers A True Human-Powered Search Experience
journal =Profy