Wink is a new breed of search engine and public bookmarking site that gives you the most relevant and interesting results as found by people! Wink uses Google powered search and applies Wink’s PeopleRank technology to deliver sites that people think are the best for your search. PeopleRank is a feature similar to Digg, where users of Wink can give each link a “Wink” to indicate that the site is good. Wink also makes extensive use of tagging to help find related links. Clearly if we need tools to help us determine the value of specific webpages, extending the metaphor to help us find and determine a context for people online has value too.
It will be interesting to see if this takes off however, because unlike with webpages, people have privacy concerns that might prevent their information from being discovered very easily.
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Tall Street is another social search directory. But uses market forces to control the search engine rankings.