Younanimous or Aftervote
Filed in: Social search
Update
No sooner did we write up some info on the new meta search engine, Younanimous, than the developers unanimously decide that you need to know it henceforth as Aftervote. In this case, I dunno, calling a spade a spade sort of explains better what the search engine does, but Younanimous is so cool and so evocative. We blogged about naming Aftervote.
Updated update
Aftervote was bought out by some mogul and is now called Scour. It is slow to load, pays to search, and seems crap compared to what I reviewed below. So read on to see what seems to have been ruined!.
What does Aftervote / Younanimous do again?
It could be billed as: major web search engine aggregator meets Digg. I think it is easier to explain rather than summarize Aftervote.
When you search a word or phrase, Aftervote will return a couple of pages of results - admittedly a little slower than if you hit on Google direct, but still pretty nifty. With the results page up, the social side of
If you click on result 1 but it isn't what you want, you would backspace to the original page of search results. Aftervote makes a note of that.
If you follow through with search result number 2, or 5 or whatever, in the list, Aftervote remembers that. As a social search engine with a brain, it then applies your search dynamic to the results of the next person searching the same keyword you just did.
In this way, it is constantly modifying the returned results to be as useful and valid as possible (assuming users aren't mental and seek crap results for their queries!)
I must say I am quite impressed, especially as it does seem to produce a different result, (a more valid result?) as you re-search a term. A shame the logo is the wishy washiest yellow of all time, but to be fair, it is in Beta, so maybe it will get beefed up along with the search engine code.
A potted history in no particular order!
Thought Mechanics bring you information on Younanimous straight from the horse's mouth.
I am really excited to be talking about the release of this. Younanimous is a totally new search engine I have helped to develop. It has so many features and actually doesnt suck like most spin off engines. To read all of it, check the About Page. Some quick highlights:
Searches google, msn and yahoo
Mixes robot rankings with social rankings.
Has alexa, Pagerank and stumbleupon plugins
Much more..
John Chow review
Younanimous was reviewed in quite a lot of detail on the popular on-line money-making tech blog, a lot more detail than I just did. But then, there was $200 or so in the pot to espouse all the good, bad and different points, so I suggest you go for a look see at the minutiae! It is well written by a tech guru, but the quality of my screen shots pisses all over theirs!
Other links
Beertjes blog tells his side of the story in Dutch
Frantic Industries gives Younanimous the benefit of the doubt
The Techno Geek Boy has explained how Aftervote works too in an article AfterVote (a.k.a. Younanimous), The Hardest Working Engine in the Search Business
Maz, the developer behind Younanimous /Aftervote gets some good advice and suggestions from forum members. (Poor old Opera get a roasting though.)
)Yes, opera and safari fix is next, although its my true belief that there is more blind people than there is opera users (joking
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