With so many black hat markers cloaking their affiliate pages, finding what you’re looking for via the search engines is becoming more and more difficult. A new search engine has taken this challenge and developed a plan that may help regulate their listings. Simply put, they are allowing their search engine users the ability to rank the index of results.

I’m sure marketers will find a way to hack or abuse the system, but you have to love someone finally making a step in the right direction.

Search Engine Sproose.com Launches New Self-Voting Platform For Web Search

Sproose, an upcoming search engine with technology allowing users to rank the index of results, launched today a new voting platform inteface so users can easily rank their favorite sites. Former Netzero Executive, Bob Pack who helped raise its initial funding in 1998, founded Sproose.

Sproose uses a “human popularity voting” model where users can self- rank the index creating personalized search results. The more users that vote a site the further up in the ranking it goes.

This connects people in a social way to share knowledge through (search), states

“The new look is much more visual providing a total score of the voted sites and a ranking system that improves upon the algorithmic based order,” says Bob Pack, CEO of Sproose. Users merely need to click on the “I like it” icon next to the search result and the index will refresh immediately moving that site up.

Registered users may also display their voted sites if they elect to. “This connects people in a social way to share knowledge through (search), states,” CEO Bob Pack.

The Sproose website is at www.sproose.com

About Sproose
Sproose provides a consumer search engine whereby the users can influence the ranking of the index by voting on the results. Each user is able to create a different set of search results when searching under the same keyword. With its proprietary ‘Knowledge Rank’ moderated directory technologies, Sproose users can effectively categorize and index sites, tailored for personal or group usage. The rating of search results is done without downloading applications to ensure privacy.

Media Contact:
Bob Pack, CEO
Sproose, Inc.
Tel 925-918-0843

Danville, CA (PRWEB) June 4, 2007 — Users are given control over search listings. Search engine Sproose.com lets users rank the index. With its self voting platfom the more popular sites move up to the top of the index of search results.

I’m going to continue with the videos for a few days just to change things up a bit here on my blog. CNN has put together a great shoot detailing the advantages of working for Google.com. As internet users, we sometimes forget that Google is actually an offline business that employs hundreds of individuals.

This video takes you through Google’s incredible facility, and explains why it’s one of the top job opportunities around. The Google campus is simply amazing. To me, it looks more like a resort than a work place. If all “real world” jobs had the amenities that Google.com has, no one would ever try to work from home. Going to work would almost seem like going on vacation.

Check out the video, and see for yourself what it would be like to work for one of the fastest growing companies in the world.

Google just can’t stand to be behind in anything these days.  I guess the folks at Google saw the huge following StumbleUpon was receiving and had to get in on the action.

Google now has a dice icon on their Toolbar that acts just like the Stumble button on SU’s Toolbar.  Once you click on the dice, Google sends you to another site that THEY think will interest you based on your past search queries.

Sound familiar?  Are they copying StumbleUpon?  Not exactly, but close enough.

I just can’t understand for the life of me why they just didn’t “aquire” SU (oh yeah, can you say eBay!).   Maybe Google will just try to bully SU around like they do everyone else.  And the bad news is, they will probably win because every marketer known to man thinks their business lives and dies with Google.
I guess the morale of the story is simple:  If you build something that is a huge online success, Google will either buy it from you, or build a copy and run you out of town.  I hate “big bullies”.

I originally found this discussion on TechCrunch