Comments on: Social Search? http://futurethinktank.com/2008/07/18/social-search/ innovation. defined. Tue, 08 Nov 2011 19:56:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Chris http://futurethinktank.com/2008/07/18/social-search/#comment-162 Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:19:43 +0000 http://futurethink.wordpress.com/?p=270#comment-162 Just to clarify my language, the results are based off of where people are actually surfing on the Internet at that time. By doing that the results are dynamic almost like a living organism. Sorry about how vague I was in my previous post.

]]> By: Chris http://futurethinktank.com/2008/07/18/social-search/#comment-153 Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:48:25 +0000 http://futurethink.wordpress.com/?p=270#comment-153 Me.dium recently released a social search engine that is for the crowds and by the crowds. It uses past searches and click streams to produce search results based on what people are really searchin and browsing. It has a dynamic aspect to it that most static search engines can only dream of. The search engine becomes a living organism that people can influence. A person can become an influencer by downloading one of Me.dium’s social toolbars or sidebar.

Me.dium’s Social Search, which leverages the Yahoo! Search BOSS platform, provides an entirely new level of information on top of traditional search. Me.dium’s Social Search harnesses the activity of the crowds to let you find information that has relevance based on what people are actually surfing right now.

Me.dium’s technology lets the inherent activity of real people – not robotic crawlers – determine relevance. Me.dium’s Social Search results show what people are surfing and find interesting, right now. While other search engines base relevance on how content links across pages, Me.dium’s Social Search shows you the most popular news, reviews, pictures and videos that other people are actually looking at in relation to your search term. And as the activity of the people online changes, so do the search results.

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