NosyJoe - The social search engine

About NosyJoe.com
(last updated Nov 20 '07)

NosyJoe is a social search engine that relies on you to sniff for and submit the web's interesting content and offers basically meaningful search results in the form of readable complete sentences and smart tags. NosyJoe is built upon the fundamental belief people are better than robots in finding the interesting, important and quality content around Web. Rather than crawling the entire Web building a massive index of information, which aside being an enormous technological task*, requires huge amount of resources and is time consuming process would also load lots of unnecessary information people don't want, NosyJoe is focused just on those parts of the Web people think are important and find interestingly enough to submit and share with others.

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NosyJoe is a hybrid of a social search engine that relies on you to sniff for and submit the web's interesting content, an intelligent content tagging engine on the back end and a basic semantic platform on its web visible part. NosyJoe then applies a semantic based textual analysis and intelligently extracts the meaningful structures like sentences, phrases, words and names from the content in order to make it just one idea more meaningfully searchable. This helps us present the search results in basically meaningful formats like readable complete sentences and smart phrasal, word and name tags.

The information is then clustered and published across the NosyJoe's platform into contextual channels, time and source categories and semantic phrasal, name and word tags are also applied to meaningfully connect them together, which makes even the smallest content component web visible, indexable and findable. At the end a set of algorithms and user patterns are applied to further rank, organize and share the information.

Facts at a Glance

- NosyJoe is a social search engine, on its consumer part, that relies on "nosy" people (the average Joe) to "sniff" for the interesting content from around the Web. NosyJoe then offers basically meaningful search results in the form of readable complete sentences and smart tags, the first search engine ever to offer that so far.

- NosyJoe is built upon the fundamental belief people are better than robots in finding the interesting, important and quality content around Web.

- NosyJoe relies on user submissions and doesn't crawl the Web.

- On the background, NosyJoe is an intelligent content tagging engine while on its web visible part NosyJoe is a basic semantic platform.

- Once the content is submitted, NosyJoe applies a semantic based textual analysis and intelligently extracts the grammatical structures like meaningful sentences, paragraphs, phrases, clauses, words and names from the content creating semantic connections by applying smart phrasal, name and word tags.

- Stores these meaningful structures in its index to make the information one idea more... meaningfully searchable. It also utilizes the newly established semantic connections to show highly relevant results and tags on demand across its platform and search results. (the relevant results on-demand are still not publicly available)

- NosyJoe then clusters the entire array of components and structures into contextual channels, time categories, sources and smart tags, meaningfully connected together, and publishes everything across its semantic platform, which makes even the smallest content component web visible, indexable and... meaningfully findable.

- By dealing with even the smallest meaningful structures and components NosyJoe is able to establish unique textual nuances for the content each of which is hyper-linking to the web publisher creating tens, hundreds, sometimes thousands of precisely contextual in-content hyper-links to a single web page from the source.

- NosyJoe further ranks, organizes and shares the meaningful sentences based on a unique point-based system that relies on a set of algorithms and user patterns.

- Little to no meaningful and grammatically correct as well as low quality content is being filtered out to guarantee really meaningful search results and keep the platform's ecosystem as clean as possible. Anti spam policies, ban lists and filters are also employed to fight against repeatedly abusive URLs. Some of the rules applied may lead to dropping web sites out of the index and getting them permanently banned from further submissions.

The project is currently in private beta.

For any questions, suggestions and critics don't hesitate to email us at info (at) nosyjoe.com.

In the News:

December 01, 2007 - Web 2.0 Money: Is Google trying to become a Social Search Engine?

In an in-depth analysis of 1) the current social search engine market, 2) the players, and 3) Google's attempt to socialize their SERPs by engaging humans in finding the quality content on Web, determining their relevancy and further fighting with the spam, Web 2.0 Money reviews and mentions NosyJoe.com as one of the few social search engines in existence today standing at best chances to make it. Google's move, if anything, represents a legitimation of the social search approach in general - the author further speculates. Web 2.0 Innovations is an authoritative site that discovers, tracks and ranks web 2.0 innovations and Web 2.0 Money is the company's blog for research, analysis and commentary on Web 2.0 innovations and the business/money behind.