I followed a lightning talk of Georg Jähnig on serchilo.net at the 24c3 Chaos Communication Congress. The video is available now in the torrent network. I uploaded it to Google Video (please post alternatives as comments). Last year I already published an interview with Georg in German. He put quite a lot of work in improving the website and making it more international since then. Hope his ideas takes off even more in the upcoming year. Would be great to have him at the SuMa-eV congress this year as well.

Videolink: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5416119002471085549

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Blog: serchilo.wordpress.com
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Georg Jähnig: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benutzer:Jorges

Jason McCabe Calacanis is the founder of Mahalo.com. With Mahalo he tries to establish a new search engine based on user submitted search result pages. In order to motivate people to write search result pages Mahalo pays part time guides 10 to 15 USD. Part time guides who submit a search page result that is accepted by full time guides also get credited as the original writer of pages.

According to Theo Röhle of the University Hamburg (Germany) the commercial exploitation of advertising space has become the main task of search engine companies. In ‘Think of it first as an advertising system’: Personalisierte Online-Suche als Datenlieferaant des Marketings” (pdf) he analyses the elicitation of user data of search engines with a focus on personalized search.

Um die Datenbanken von Suchmaschinen und Auskunftsdiensten abzufragen, muss man auf die Websites der Anbieter. Neben Werbebannern erhält man hier oft viele für die Suche nicht relevante Informationen. Mit einer Suchanfrage bei Serchilo kann man direkt auf die Ergebnisse von Suchmaschinen zugreifen. Die Nutzer können bei Serchilo zudem eigene Kommandos schreiben und bearbeiten. Die Befehle werden hierzu in einem Wiki unter einer freien Creative-Commons-Lizenz (by+sa) gespeichert.