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Search Agents: Will Startups or MIT Win Out?

Steve Spalding, Read/WriteWeb


Eurekster's Swicki competes admirably as a search agent. Once again, you start off by creating your own search engine. You select the topics, you choose the sites you wish to include and you pick among common search terms that you believe would be of interest to your users. After that, your new Swicki takes on a life of its own. Your users can vote results up and down, and you have the ability to completely delete entries from the result page. Ideally, in a short amount of time this will create a "perfect" results page, geared towards your users.

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