Hunch (website)
Encyclopedia
Hunch is a website, designed as a collective intelligence
decision-making system that uses decision tree
s to make decisions based on users' interest. Hunch is building the 'taste graph' for the internet, mapping every person to every entity — and their affinity for that entity. The system asks users a series of questions about a topic to help weigh the options. Upon completion of the questions, the user is presented with results, where he or she can agree or disagree with the results to help "train" the system. Users can also add pros and cons about results. Hunch was launched publicly on June 15, 2009, and since then has been fully open and available to the public. The website reached a total worldwide site traffic of 1.2 million unique visitors in February 2010.
Hunch was co-founded by Flickr
co-founder Caterina Fake
with an 11-person team of MIT graduates. The company is located in New York City. On December 7, 2009, Wikipedia
co-founder Jimmy Wales
announced that he will be joining Hunch.com as Board Member and advisor.
. Users had to request an invitation at Hunch.com, which took a few days to receive.--110.174.140.246 (talk) 19:00, 21 November 2011 (UTC)On November 21, 2011 it has been announced that Hunch has been officially acquired by ebay Inc. for a reported 80 Million dollars.
Collective intelligence
Collective intelligence is a shared or group intelligence that emerges from the collaboration and competition of many individuals and appears in consensus decision making in bacteria, animals, humans and computer networks....
decision-making system that uses decision tree
Decision tree
A decision tree is a decision support tool that uses a tree-like graph or model of decisions and their possible consequences, including chance event outcomes, resource costs, and utility. It is one way to display an algorithm. Decision trees are commonly used in operations research, specifically...
s to make decisions based on users' interest. Hunch is building the 'taste graph' for the internet, mapping every person to every entity — and their affinity for that entity. The system asks users a series of questions about a topic to help weigh the options. Upon completion of the questions, the user is presented with results, where he or she can agree or disagree with the results to help "train" the system. Users can also add pros and cons about results. Hunch was launched publicly on June 15, 2009, and since then has been fully open and available to the public. The website reached a total worldwide site traffic of 1.2 million unique visitors in February 2010.
Hunch was co-founded by Flickr
Flickr
Flickr is an image hosting and video hosting website, web services suite, and online community that was created by Ludicorp in 2004 and acquired by Yahoo! in 2005. In addition to being a popular website for users to share and embed personal photographs, the service is widely used by bloggers to...
co-founder Caterina Fake
Caterina Fake
Caterina Fake is an American businesswoman and internet entrepreneur.Fake was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, graduated from Choate Rosemary Hall, attended Smith College, and graduated from Vassar College in 1991....
with an 11-person team of MIT graduates. The company is located in New York City. On December 7, 2009, Wikipedia
Wikipedia
Wikipedia is a free, web-based, collaborative, multilingual encyclopedia project supported by the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation. Its 20 million articles have been written collaboratively by volunteers around the world. Almost all of its articles can be edited by anyone with access to the site,...
co-founder Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Donal "Jimbo" Wales is an American Internet entrepreneur best known as a co-founder and promoter of the online non-profit encyclopedia Wikipedia and the Wikia company....
announced that he will be joining Hunch.com as Board Member and advisor.
History
Hunch started a private preview period in December 2008, but opened the preview to the public in March 2009 as an invitation-only private betaSoftware testing
Software testing is an investigation conducted to provide stakeholders with information about the quality of the product or service under test. Software testing can also provide an objective, independent view of the software to allow the business to appreciate and understand the risks of software...
. Users had to request an invitation at Hunch.com, which took a few days to receive.--110.174.140.246 (talk) 19:00, 21 November 2011 (UTC)On November 21, 2011 it has been announced that Hunch has been officially acquired by ebay Inc. for a reported 80 Million dollars.
Reports
Hunch often publishes reports revealing interesting, odd and sometimes amusing correlations between users who have 'taught' Hunch information about themselves. The reports currently published are:- Gays in the military: opinions about “Don't Ask Don't Tell”
- “Bitters” vs “Lovers”: What our Valentine’s Day outlook says about us
- Pooches and people: what our best pals reveal about ourselves
- Console Tribes: What Your Video Game System Says About You
- Hunch users weigh in on global warming
- And now for something lighter: Cookie Monster blows away #2 Oscar as a Hunch favorite
- New York Times Bestsellers: A Hunch Topic Snapshot
- Mac vs PC People: Personality Traits & Aesthetic/Media Choices
- How Food Preferences Vary by Political Ideology
- Profile of a Hunch iPhone owner
- Does TV Make us Dumber-er?