Another Soldier in the Web Search Arena
May 29, 2012
There’s another web search revolution, and the driving force behind it… is an 18 year old kid, according to the article 18-Year-Old Aims to Redefine How You Search the Web. You see, the web’s like a country, rich with resources and information. Web search providers are like the group of nations that want to control its resources, distributing them as they see fit.
James Petzke, who is the mastermind behind Less Junk, sees it as:
“Servers and programs are choosing the best sites for humans to look at, which doesn’t make much sense to me. Less Junk searches only the top 5000 sites on the web, based on user votes, taking a radically new approach to the search engine industry. Users have deemed the top 5000, so users know that the results they see weren’t just picked up by a computer, but by actual people.”
Less Junk says their braving the battlefield to give the choice back to the people. The voting process consists of going to their site and entering your website of choice. There is no registration process, thus no restriction on re-entering the same sites. The selective site scales might become unbalanced based on that alone.
The accuracy of the new approach seems questionable. It adds both human and social elements, but the circle is limited. Less Junk’s just another soldier in the web search revolution, and as the web evolves so will web search.
Jennifer Shockley, May 29, 2012
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