Sproose is a relatively young search engine that now allows its users to control search results via voting. Each search result gets its own vote count and the option to click "I like it," which brings the result up to the top of the heap. The obvious comparison here is Digg.
Sproose searches through videos, using Blinkx, although these results cannot be re-ordered or voted on. Users can also opt-in to have their votes recorded on their profiles for others to see and vote on. All results get their own comment area, where users can talk--although I doubt many will want to write about a search result.
One of the more interesting inclusions in Sproose is its tag cloud, where users can browse for sites via tags. This is kind of an interesting form of Web discovery service, although it's lacking a clear way to add tags to sites yourself.
The obvious concern with sites like these is gaming results. Sproose deters some of this by removing votes from unregistered users after a limited time and requiring registration, although savvy spammers can usually find a way to circumvent whatever verification processes exist. Sproose's results are only as good as its users, and if security fails, so does the site.
See also: aftervote
Search results can be voted and commented on by users. The results with the highest vote counts go on top.
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- Flickr outage reveals site's scale. Flickr wasn't working yesterday, but fear not--it's back up. The problem mixed up a large number of photos across the site, which quickly led to Yahoo shutting down the service for several hours. Interestingly enough, the outage revealed that at times, the site serves over a billion photos a day. (CNET's Yahoo Blog)
- 37signals shows off a piece of new app Highrise. The first screenshots from the 37signals team have been posted, along with information on managing permissions and groups for its new customer relationship app called Highrise. It may seem a tad on the boring side, but for a collaboration-based tool, choosing who can and can't make changes is important. Previous Highrise coverage here. (Signal vs. Noise)
- Blinkx and Sproose partner for the video search tool. Blinkx, which we checked out at Demo 2007, has partnered with the social search engine Sproose, to provide dynamic search results for Sproose's video search. Sproose lets its users vote on the best results, to make searches more relevant.
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