I have just signed up for Volunia, the world's newest search engine.
It was launched last Monday after four years of development by Massimo Marchiori, an Italian computer science professor who helped develop the forerunner to the Google algorthim.
Volunia is unique in that it combines a search engine with a social media platform. Entries will be found based on what other users are finding, tagging and sharing. This video explains more:
Marchiori believes all search engines will incorporate social media platform's which begs the question how long will Google do that and thus render Volunia irrelevant?
Volunia was launched to power users on Monday to test out the service, but it will be rolled out to all users in 12 languages over the coming days.
It was launched last Monday after four years of development by Massimo Marchiori, an Italian computer science professor who helped develop the forerunner to the Google algorthim.
Volunia is unique in that it combines a search engine with a social media platform. Entries will be found based on what other users are finding, tagging and sharing. This video explains more:
Marchiori believes all search engines will incorporate social media platform's which begs the question how long will Google do that and thus render Volunia irrelevant?
Volunia was launched to power users on Monday to test out the service, but it will be rolled out to all users in 12 languages over the coming days.
