What are you searching for? Wink Wink
About two weeks ago I received an invite to test the latest beta search service called Wink. If you’re one that follows the latest Web 2.0 trends you’re probably somewhat aware of what this search service claims to offer.
Lurking beneath the Wink hood is the Google search engine. The actual power of Wink extends beyond the search results. Instead of relying on pagerank, link popularity and usefulness is dictated by yourself and fellow Wink users. How so? Wink allows it’s users to tag, rate, share, and block search results. The cumulative data compiled essentially presents you with the useful search results minus the bloat.
Wink is a search engine. It provides great Google results, but it also gives you the freshest information on the web by serving up the most relevant taggged links for your search. We crawl and index tags from all over the web, and serve them up with web results, for a combination of freshness and accuracy. We also include other user-contributed content, such as answers from Wikipedia or the Wink Wiki, which is added by people like you.
Wink also allows you to “tag” your results. A tag is similar to a bookmark, but it allows you also annotate that bookmark with words that you associate with that site. For instance, if you tagged www.kodak.com, you could notate it with the terms “camera”, “photography” and “film”. Your tags are stored in your “My Page”, so if you want to then go look at all the sites you use for photography, www.kodak.com and any others that you have tagged will be there.
In addition to the much popular tagging, Wink allows you to save search terms as “bundles” giving you quick access to relevant and “fresh” results as additional web links are crawled.
If you’re interested in a beta invite, head on over to the Wink homepage and request an account.
