Slangwho
Encyclopedia
Slangwho is a social search engine
that is operated and privately owned by Slangwho, Inc.
, and launched a series of videos on vimeo.com called “Black Box Series” directed by Italian filmmaker Aaron Chiesa. “The videos were a commentary on the ‘black box’ algorithms used by most search engines to determine search results. Slangwho’s search results are determined by users." This new social search engine has grabbed the attention of big search engines Google and IAC (owners of Ask.com), because technologists say that Google is broken, and people-powered search like Slangwho is the best fix.
Social search
Social search or a social search engine is a type of web search that takes into account the Social Graph of the person initiating the search query...
that is operated and privately owned by Slangwho, Inc.
History
Slangwho, Inc. was founded by John S. Shriber, Roman Zaks, and Sasha A. Tcherevkoff on September 1, 2009. Slangwho.com launched live to a private group of beta testers on March 1, 2010.Overview
In 2009, Slangwho leased office space in TriBeCaTriBeCa
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, and launched a series of videos on vimeo.com called “Black Box Series” directed by Italian filmmaker Aaron Chiesa. “The videos were a commentary on the ‘black box’ algorithms used by most search engines to determine search results. Slangwho’s search results are determined by users." This new social search engine has grabbed the attention of big search engines Google and IAC (owners of Ask.com), because technologists say that Google is broken, and people-powered search like Slangwho is the best fix.
See also
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