Steffen Mueller a former product manager with Google has a new project called Topicle which was launched this week. Mueller worked on such things as Google Maps, Froogle, and Google Web Search a Google. Well Topicle is his baby.
Most people are calling it a Google meets Wikipedia search engine and they’re not far off. Topicle relies on users input in collecting helpful web links. Voters use a 1-5 scale.
To use Topicle, the process is simple. You first search for a search engine, using their current database of human-created engines. If you find one that fits your needs, you can use it. If not, you can create your own engine or add to an existing one to make it more suitable.
Each search engine is actually a collection of user-submitted links, and a search using that engine will only pull back results from the sites listed. For example, the Topicle search engine PHP only searches the following sites as well as a few others
So when you select the PHP engine and enter in a search term, you will only get results from the listed URLs. This search engine has a long way to go to become one of the big ones but it’s a start and definitely is interesting.
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